November 2014 Archive

Ebola tracks outbreak of HIV/AIDS pandemic
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist A high school friend of my wife was one of the earliest victims of the HIV/AIDS pandemic. He was a flight attendant, who was stricken and ...
N.O. goes on the attack against domestic violence
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer National i need a payday loan without teletrack research ranks Louisiana among a handful of states with the highest rates of male-on-female violence in the United States. ...
Turned down for what?
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor In this political season of name-calling, race-baiting and fact-fudging, it would be easy to get frustrated and just shut down. But shutting down or even turning down ...
Watching the elections from abroad
By George E. payday loans in walnut ca Curry NNPA Columnist JERUSALEM — On Election Night, I usually stay awake as long as my eyelids are willing to cooperate. But this year ...
Justice for Native Americans
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist There was a time when Black people were bombarded with offensive names that others knew were offensive, but use of the words continued. ...
Online colleges flunk common sense
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist The most common model of college attendance is that a young person who graduates from high school and heads directly to college, perhaps taking a year off ...
What if Pres. Obama had employed his own ‘Southern strategy’?
By Dr. Wilmer J. Leon III TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist “Because what we must now ask ourselves is when we become equal American citizens what will be our aims and ideals and what will ...
State sues Army Corps of Engineers for MR-GO costs
By Bob Marshall The Lens Louisiana has gone to federal court in its quest to have the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers foot the entire $3 billion bill for restoring damage caused ...
Politically connected company would benefit from state Amendment 3
By Charles Maldonado The Lens A constitutional amendment before voters Tuesday would let local governments contract with for-profit companies to collect delinquent property taxes — a measure that would greatly benefit one ...
Sugary soda linked to cell aging
By Jeffrey Norris Contributing Writer (Special from UC Newsroom and New America Media) – The study revealed that telomeres — the protective units of DNA that cap the ends of chromosomes in ...

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