September 2013 Archive

LIVINGSTON
Activist, journalist, Min. J. Kojo Livingston dies
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Minister J. Kojo Livingston, an activist with more than 40 years of experience in community organizing, advocacy, and street-level outreach, died of natural causes in ...
Reclaiming our history
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor One of America’s greatest intellectuals, William E.B. DuBois, once wrote: “Listen to the Winds, O God the Reader, that wail across the whipcords stretched taut on broken ...
Rep. Cassidy is wrong on health care
Congressman and U.S. Senate candidate Bill Cassidy has attacked the Affordable Care Act or “Obamacare” as too big, too costly, and too complicated. In the real world, healthcare economics is ...
Seriously? Scoring zero
By William Spriggs TriceEdneyWire.com payday loans credit ed Columnist The current tracking of Congress’ popularity shows that only 15 percent of Americans approve of the job Congress is doing. Now, House Speaker ...
The ‘tranquilizing drug of gradualism’
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon, III TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in ...
Stooges Brass Band | Photo courtesy of Vanguard Film & Video Productions and PUFAP
Jazz in the Park is back!
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Emanuel Lain, Jr. describes himself as the president, founder and “janitor” of the People United for Armstrong Park organization that kicks off its fourth season of its ...
We will never forget!
New Orleanians are the strongest people on earth. Eight years ago, Hurricane Katrina changed everything—but not that simple fact. That fateful storm barreling through ...
A mother’s passage to heaven is special
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Getting in just under the wire Tuesday, August 13, at 9:00 p.m. when the public doors are locked, I was privileged to visit Gloria Greene in ...
Carver Field of Dreams
2014 target date for long-awaited 9th Ward project
By Kari Harden Contributing Writer Golden shovels and all, ground will break next Monday on a vision more than five years in the making: the 9th Ward Field of Dreams.
‘Where do we go from here?’
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist “In a sense we’ve come to our nation’s capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the ...

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