February 2014 Archive

Statue to be erected in honor of Maggie Walker — Black woman bank founder
By Jeremy M. Lazarus Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Richmond Free Press) — Maggie L. Walker, Richmond’s most celebrated woman, is going to be put on ...
Black Americans in the Revolutionary War: – Taking sides for freedom, Part I
By George J. Bryjak Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from The Milwaukee Courier) – Black Americans have a long and distinguished history of military service.
About Town…
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Lourdes Moran Endorses Nadine Ramsey… Jackie Clark­son headlined a star-studded gala Monday night, February 17, MC’ed by her famed daughter Patricia and fellow Broadway luminary Bryan ...
Audubon Place, one of N.O.’s most exclusive streets, a property-tax bargain
By Charles Maldonado The Lens The houses on Audubon Place, bbb accredited bad credit loan companies a private, gated street near Tulane University, are some of the grandest in the city — ...
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‘Photography and the Civil War’ on display at NOMA
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer The New Orleans Museum of Art recently unveiled “Photography and the American Civil War,” a touring exhibition of over 200 Civil War photographs on display ...
What the Dunn verdict says about our culture
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League Another mother’s anguish. Another unarmed Black teenager in Florida shot dead for no good reason. Another indefensible instance of Stand Your ...
The old salt of the earth meets the new
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Heavily invested in the world of medicine, the University of Texas at Arlington displays its wares at every turn, including the University Catholic Community (UCC), most ...
The Hungry Child
By Marian Wright Edelman NNPA Columnist Some children cheer when schools close for winter storms, but there are hungry children in America right now for whom another snow day meant another ...
The GOP accommodates evil
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Just when, six years in to the Obama presidency, I think I’m hardened to the deranged anti-Obama rants of conservatives and Republican Party officials, I’ve ...
The Bounce Back: Black history revisited
By David Dennis Jr. Contributing Writer In 1787 America’s forefathers decided that every enslaved African — pretty much every descendant of Africa in the New World — would be considered three-fifths of ...

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