March 2014 Archive

Working and poor in America
By William Spriggs TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The furor has not died down over Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) comments about inner city men and poverty in America. Ryan has agreed to talk ...
Slave state of mind
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Anyone who knows and understands anything about the history and culture of this city can understand why it was the last place enslaved Africans who were seen ...
Should a priest be vulnerable?
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Writer Responding to a query Sacramento California cash advance by South­ern SVD Provincial Superior James Pawlicki, professor/author Father Ronald Rolheiser penned some reflections on the priesthood.
Rand Paul tries to recast his racial views
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist Question: What do you call someone who believes White shopkeepers and owners of other large and small businesses have the “right” to discriminate against Black people.
Obama worse than Bush on SBA loans
By George E. Curry NNPA Columnist When I interviewed Marie Johns, then the outgoing deputy secretary of the Small Business Administration, a year ago, she said the SBA does not separate ...
NOPD manpower shortage raises concerns
It doesn’t look like New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu is going to be able to keep the promise he made during his recent re-election bid to put 150 new cops ...
NAACP asks D.A., coroner to resume Glover probe
Three days after the state AG backed away from a request by Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Frank Minyard to weigh in on the ongoing investigation into the death of Henry ...
Lucy McBath and Ron Davis, parents of Jordan Davis, are the recipients of NNPA Foundation award. Photo by Roy Lewis
Jordan Davis worried that he wouldn’t ‘make it’ in life
By Freddie Allen NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Filled with doubt about his future, Jordan Davis, a 17-year-old student at Samuel W. Wolfson High School began to cry one night ...
Empowering Black America
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist Every March the National Newspaper Publishers Association (NNPA) and its philanthropic arm, the NNPA Foundation, gather in Washington, D.C. for Black Press Week. I ...
Black leaders critique Obama’s ‘Brother’s Keeper,’ relationship with Black community
By Jacqueline F. Taylor Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — A Women’s History Month/Black Press forum to respond to President Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative ended up being a critique of his administration ...

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