September 2013 Archive

Doc McStuffins prescribes healthy tips to New Orleans fans
By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer If you have a Disney Junior channel fan at home, chances are they’re a fan of the animated television series Doc McStuffins. The show stars the six-year-old ...
Gloucester’s Rebellion: A lesson about our character
By Benjamin Todd Jealous Guest Columnist Three hundred years before a multiracial coalition stormed Washington’s National Mall to demand equal rights and economic justice, the working men of Gloucester County, Va., made ...
Kenneth Polite moves closer to becoming U.S. Attorney
On the morning of September 12, the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of New Orleans attorney Kenneth Allen Polite Jr. for the post of U.S. Attorney for the ...
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Lincoln died for our sins
By Jelani Cobb Contributing Writer birmingham midshires unsecured loan Editor’s Note: This is the ninth in a series Race in America — Past and Present America’s Twentieth-Century Slavery. (TriceEdneyWire.com) – The opening ...
Make problems a prayer, not a strikeout
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Gloria Greene’s homegoing Resurrection Mass was a vibrant, joyful celebration of her life whose afterglow lingered at Greenwood Mausoleum in northwest Fort Worth. On cue after ...
Music everywhere for every taste
By Geraldine Wykcoff Contributing Writer There’s nowhere quite like Tipitina’s for some old-school vibe – it lives in the spot created for the late, great Professor Longhair. On Saturday, September 20, the ...
Watch your mouth
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” —John 1:1 Never underestimate the power of words. That’s a ...
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Use of electronic cigarettes on upswing among youth
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper) — The use of electronic cigarettes has spiked among middle- and high-school students over the ...
The tricky business of measuring progress eight years after Hurricane Katrina
By Brentin Mock Contributing Writer Many people have made money off of the rebuilding of the city, but not those who lost the most after the levees burst. (Special from Facing South) – ...
The FBI and I Have a Dream
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist According to reporter, Tony Capaccio, in the August 28, 2013 Washington Post, “The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech inspired the ...

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