November 2013 Archive
By Ron Daniels NNPA Guest Columnist small consumer loan The Christmas season provides an excellent opportunity for Africans in America to engage in a season of resistance. The corporate retail establishment in ... Why I represent the New Orleans immigrant workers who committed civil disobedience
In the 36 years I have been a lawyer, I have seen many people take brave moral actions. I have represented hundreds in Louisiana and across our country who ... Rev. T.J. Jemison, civil rights leader, dies at 95
The Rev. T. J. Jemison, a longtime Louisiana pastor, pioneering civil rights leader and founder of one of the nation’s met effective faith-based civil rights organizations, has died. He was ... JFK’s Civil Rights legacy
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist There’s been as much myth as fact regarding John F. Kennedy’s civil rights legacy in the more than fifty years before, during and especially ... Losing Gerald
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Were it not for LSU and Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc., H. Gerald Olivier and I might have never met. I’m glad we did. I’m spending these cold, ... Forcing poor people to go hungry
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Just as the holiday season begins, when the thoughts and actions of some focus on compassion for others, we could be about to witness the government’s ... GOP’s crocodile tears over Health Care
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist Republicans have no shame. After House Republicans voted more than 40 times to block implementation of what they derisively call Obamacare, they have the temerity to ... Cutting food assistance is more than morally wrong
By William Spriggs TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The U.S. Gross Domestic Product (the value of all goods and services in the economy) figures show GDP per person is $53,211. That’s per person, not per ... Chronicling the healing of an eye
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Writer As Frank “Paco” Norvel swerved into the parking lot of the Center For Cancer And Blood Disorders, I reflected, “A visit to an oncologist is not ... Every vote critical!
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Two issues weigh heavily on my mind. The first issue is that of hunger in America and the reactionary Republican effort to apply ...
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