February 2014 Archive

Remembering today’s fight
During Black History Month, students across the country pause to celebrate the great contributions of African Americans, ranging from Dr. Martin Luther King’s dream, the brave actions of many in ...
Reclaiming our history
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor One of America’s greatest intellectuals, William E.B. DuBois, once wrote: “Listen to the Winds, O God the Reader, that wail across the whipcords stretched taut on broken ...
Economics lesson on the deficit and debt
By William Spriggs TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Republicans in the House of Representa­tives last week caved and allowed a simple vote on raising the debt limit of the United States. Their hand-wringing about ...
Clarence Thomas’ self-inflicted amnesia
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist cash advance places in elyria ohio Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is at it again. Whenever he opens his mouth about race, he displays a surprising myopia ...
Another NOPD fatal shooting has community seeking answers
Officer has long record of excessive force Family members, friends and neighbors are still trying to figure out what happened after a 31-year-old Black man was gunned by by a New ...
Ex-cop involved in Glover case wants his job back
A former New Orleans police lieutenant wants his job back and back pay after prosecutors dropped federal charges against him in the alleged cover-up of Henry Glover’s burning and fatal ...
Michael Jackson Vice President/GM Nike Basketball North America, Novelian Cain Foot Locker district manager, Anthony Davis of the New Orleans Pelicans, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, emcee ‘Hollywood,’ and Tyronne Walker of NOLA FOR LIFE Midnight Basketball attend the press conference with Joe Brown Park players at the NOLA for Life Midnight Basketball Program at Joe Brown Park.
NOLA for Life scores funding
By Nayita Wilson Contributing Writer Nike and Foot Locker have announced plans to fund the sixth season of New Orleans’ NOLA for Life Midnight Basketball program—a crime prevention initiative that New Orleans ...
STEM education gap threatens American economic success
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – At a time when 6.7 percent unemployment (or, 11.9 percent among African Americans) is an improvement, the STEM sector still has more available ...
Orleans Parish assessor questions private status of three Uptown streets
By Charles Maldonado The Lens “Rosa Park Private Street payday loan temecula Do Not Enter” reads the sign near St. Charles Avenue, marking the entrance to a block-long street of $1 million-plus ...
EugEnE ‘Big ChiEf Junior’ Thomas
Big Chief Junior of the White Eagles dies
By Geraldine Wykcoff Contributing Writer Eugene Thomas, Big Chief Junior of the White Eagles Mardi Gras Indian gang, masked Indian every year for more than 60 years. The chief, who at ...

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