January 2014 Archive

New Hope Baptist Church hosts annual scholarship luncheon
New Hope Baptist Church lives up to its name. It certainly does provide new hope. Just ask the 30 college-enrolled students and high school seniors who are and will receive ...
Poll: President Obama is named World’s Most Admired
(Special to pda payday loans the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press) — Americans named President Barack Obama and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the ...
The War on Poverty – and MLK
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist We are celebrating the 50th anniversary of the War on Poverty at roughly the same time we’re observing the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, ...
Robots are replacing human workers
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist One of the most fascinating articles I read over the holidays was by Lydia DePillis in the December 29 Washington Post (“8 ways robots stole our ...
Fired teachers win in Appeals Court
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer The Louisiana Fourth Circuit Court of Appeal unanimously ruled that approximately 7,000 teachers and school employees were wrongfully terminated in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
MLK: Militant of the 21st century
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. hasn’t been this alive since 1968. He’s no longer that visually distant, two-dimensional figure, limited to speaking a single sentence taken ...
Make the M.L.K. Jr. Holiday count
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor How do you plan to spend the Martin Luther King Jr. National Holiday? Reading a good book that you haven’t been able to find the time to read? ...
GOLDEN ZENON IV
Louisianian receives highest Boy Scout commendation
It’s an achievement that puts you in a very exclusive club. It’s an achievement that earns you congratulations from the president, past presidents, the governor, a bishop and a brigadier general, ...
King’s true legacy
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist This month will mark the 85th birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Across the nation and throughout the world community, millions of people ...
Fighting poverty on two fronts
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Baines Johnson declared a war on poverty. Appalled by the way too many Americans lived, he empowered federal workers to develop ...

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