September 2013 Archive
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist The Dock Bookshop, a Black establishment on Meadowbrook Drive in Fort Worth, Texas, was as good a place as any for an old-fashioned dialogue with youth ... No contradiction to CDC complaint on Big Charity
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The opposition of the judges of the Orleans Civil District Court to converting Big Charity into a “Civic Center”—a proposed municipal center encompassing both the CDC and ... Program returns foreclosed borrowers to homeownership
By Charlene Crowell NNPA Writer In the aftermath of more than 2.5 million foreclosures, the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) is now offering a homeownership program that will put previously troubled borrowers on ... Soul Sister’s ‘Gem Sessions’ : A ‘diamond in the rough’
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer When Melissa Weber aka DJ Soul Sister noticed that noted modern jazz vibraphonist and drummer Warren Wolf and his group Wolfpack was going to be playing ... The new white Negro
By Isabel Sawhill Contributing Writer What it means that family breakdown is now biracial Editor’s Note: This is the eighth in a series Race in America - Past and Present America’s Twentieth-Century Slavery. ... Learning about Sjögren’s, the disease Venus Williams contracted
By Nikki Denton Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the New Pittsburgh Courier) — Sjögren’s is a rapidly growing disease that is not being diagnosed by many doctors. Venus Williams, one ... Jobs and freedom still needed
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist On Saturday personal loans in san mateo August 24, and Wednesday, August 28, tens of thousands of Americans gathered at the Lincoln Memorial to honor ... Candidates for New Orleans elected offices kick off campaigns
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Basin Street Station, the renovated train depot that is part Vieux Carre’ welcome center/part reception hall on its top floor, has gained some notoriety in recent weeks ... All children deserve teachers who care about them
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “You see a lot of teachers judge and stigmatize their students based on where they come from. A lot of my teachers thought that since I ... After ‘March,’ feeling hopeful about the ‘Dream’
By Dr. Barbara Reynolds TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Obama’s speech was not just a wander down memory lane. He reiterated his resolve to fight the forces that have kept Black unemployment often twice ...
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