August 2014 Archive

Amputation are more likely for poorer diabetics
By Elaine Schmidt Contributing Writer (Special from UC Newsroom and New payday advance escondido ca America Media) — It’s no secret that poverty is bad for your health. Now a new UCLA ...
Black leaders call for review of police misconduct against Blacks
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Calling it a “Unified Statement of Action to Promote Reform and Stop Police Abuse” civil rights leaders last week released a statement in the ...
Black Americans’ threat from whites wearing badges
By Lee A. Daniels NNPA Columnist The disjointed, gap-laden manner in which Ferguson, Mo. Police Chief Thomas Jackson revealed the name of the police officer who shot 18-year-old Michael Brown to death ...
Dogs get more respect than Michael Brown
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist It doesn’t matter if you are state legislator or an alderman, a journalist or a local leader. If you are in Ferguson, Mo., you won’t get any ...
Stop the war on young Black men in America
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO National Urban League I had originally planned to use this column to denounce the July 17 death of Eric Garner, a 43-year-old, unarmed Black man following the unlawful ...
Were you there?
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Friday, August 29, marks the ninth year since Hurricane Katrina and the subsequent levee breaks devastated the city of New Orleans and other towns along the Gulf ...
The second slaying of Michael Brown
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist The instant the news broke that 18-year old Michael Brown was slain by a Ferguson, Missouri cop the inevitable happened. Police officials dusted off ...
Tired of political pitches, but not the fight
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist So, the midterm elections are fast approaching and, with every passing day, you are probably receiving an email and/or letter suggesting that the world will end ...
White cops kill at least two Blacks each week
By George E. Curry NNPA small loan Columnist Occasionally, police officers behave in such as dastardly manner that it captures international attention. There was the 1997 famous video of four white LAPD ...
N.O. holds rally protesting police brutality
New Orleans protesters march into 8th District police station By Michael Patrick Welch Contributing Writer Lafayette Square Park was tightly roped off when a couple hundred protestors gathered there last Thursday night to ...

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