November 2014 Archive

Voices from abroad
By E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist In small loans over 6 months 2008, when President Obama launched his first campaign for the Presidency, we heard a multitude of voices expressing adoration ...
Bigger unchained
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor So I’m trying to catch up on some sleep during the Nov. 16 Saints game when my phone starts blowing up with texts and phone calls from ...
Black Women’s Roundtable will advise NFL on domestic violence
(TriceEdneyWire.com) — Members of the DC-based Black Women’s Roundtable Public Policy Network (BWR) has convened a long-awaited meeting with National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell.
Coroner rules inmate’s death a homicide
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer More than seven months after a brutal physical altercation left Orleans Parish Prison inmate Willie Lee dead after suffering cardiac arrest, Orleans Parish coroner, Dr. Jeffrey ...
Democrats did not invest wisely in Black candidates
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Columnist A total of $172 million. That was the record amount the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) raised in 2013 and 2014. But that money was ...
24th JDC candidate runs on experience
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Thomas Anzelmo has a surname well-known to Jefferson Parish voters. In fact, the 24th JDC candidate in the December 6, 2014 runoff believes that his ...
Black families in Louisiana are ‘underbanked’
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Families in Louisiana are more likely than households in other states to lack regular access to financial institutions, a report receiving national attention from the Federal Deposit ...
BESE votes to let RSD choose John Mac charter operator
By Kari Dequine Harden Contributing Writer It was yet another heartbreaking meeting for the members of the John McDonogh High School community who have been fighting to get the school out of ...
Tulane hosts panel to educate students on rape, prevention
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer On Wednesday, November 12, Tulane University’s Hillel House hosted “Rape 101: How Do We End Sexual Assault on Campus?”, a panel discussion on sex crimes at universities.
Feds to create wrongful convictions unit
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – U.S. Attorneys across the nation are professional prosecutors, making sure criminals are locked up for their crimes. Beginning this fall, the U.S. Attorney’s ...

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