Bayou Classic to roll on despite GSU’s woes
With a little more than a month remaining until the 40th annual Bayou Classic is played in the Mercedes-Benz Superdome, organizers are scrambling to move beyond Grambling State University’s recent ... Joint fed-state river study to support future projects
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer At a public meeting Wednesday, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Louisiana’s Coastal Protection and Restoration Authority updated residents on a joint Louisiana Coas­tal Area study ... Voodoo Music Festival – Big changes and an unexpected name
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Since its inception in 1999, the Voodoo Music Experience, now dubbed the Voodoo Music + Arts Experience, has gone through many changes though perhaps none more so, ... UNCF Walk for Education rescheduled for Nov. 2
The New Orleans office personal loans lawrenceville ga of UNCF (the United Negro College Fund), the nation’s largest and most effective minority education organization, on Monday an­nounced the new date ... Implementation of i3 education grants being questioned
By Kari Harden Contributing Writer Despite being the recipient of an $800,000 federal grant, John McDonogh Senior High School is having serious money problems. Health disparities group pushing for equality in immunizations
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — A working group of Black leaders is calling on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to expand the recommendations for the bacterial meningitis vaccine to include infants ... Groups seek to address La.’s incarceration rates
By Michael Patrick Welch Contributing Writer On Wednesday, October 22, at UNO’s Jefferson campus, the American Civil Liberties Union and the Pelican Institute for Public Policy hosted a public forum to ... Maryland HBCU case has implications for America
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — A federal judge’s ruling that Maryland violated the constitutional rights of the students at its historically Black college and universities by perpetuating segregation will have ... Liberty Bank expands its southern footprint with latest acquisition
Liberty Bank and quick loan no credit history Trust recently announced plans to expand its footprint to eight states with the acquisition of First Tuskegee Bank of Alabama Anemic voter turnout saw Blacks out number whites at N.O. polls
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The irony of the Magistrate’s court race comes from the fact that the primary results almost exactly reflect the demographic breakdown of Orleans Parish post-Katrina.
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