August 2013 Archive
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today” — Malcolm X As a brand-new ... Holder says the obvious – Drug war is a war on minorities
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist The scuttlebutt is that Attorney General Eric Holder is poised to say what has long been obvious to anyone who has the faintest notion ... Is gluttony no longer a deadly sin?
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist In ancient Rome, vomitoria primarily meant the well-designed exit passageways and corridors under the Colosseum and other large buildings through which many thousands of people were ... Making History…again
By Benjamin Todd Jealous Guest Columnist — Remember the March on Washington? August 28, 1963. Tens of thousands of activists on the National Mall. A preacher’s son from Atlanta talking about his ... More UFO sightings than voter fraud cases
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Prior to the 2012 elections, I found myself in a discussion with a colleague concerning Republican efforts at what has come to be known as “voter ... New Orleans – Shreveport Amtrak service a real possibility
By J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer Right now, an Amtrak train ride from New Orleans to Shreveport takes 44 hours and costs $312.00 (one way) if you travel on a Tuesday. This ... NOPD consent decree moves forward
Despite the efforts of New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to derail the process, implementation of the federally mandated NOPD consent decree moved forward on August 9. Poll: Blacks, Latinos worry over long-term care crisis
By Bruce Chernof, M.D. Contributing Writer LONG BEACH, Calif. (Special from Altarum Health Policy Forum/New America Media) — It is no secret that Americans are aging, but what is too often ... The color of care in aging America, Part II
By Matt Perry Contributing Writer LOS small loans from direct lenders ANGELES (Special from California Health Report/New America Media) — During his first presidential campaign, Democratic hopeful Barack Obama famously claimed ... The Hard Truth…Russell Simmons rapes Tubman
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer The concept should offend you. A comedy sex tape mocking Harriett Tubman, making slave rape funny, telling us that having sex with white men was how ...
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