By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer Unlike many kids on a warm sunny Saturday, young 7th graders from Behrman Charter and McDonogh 32 Literacy Charter Schools were spending part of the early afternoon ... March Madness: Race, sports and money
By Everett L. Glenn Guest Columnist The NCAA men’s basketball tournament, better known as “March Madness” is back. A total of 68 teams compete in a single-elimination game format highlighted by the ... SUNO’s Lady Knights get first-ever NAIA tourney win
Milestone win part of record-breaking season for New Orleans HBCU The seventh-seeded SUNO Lady Knights on March 18 won its first-ever game at the NAIA Division I Women’s Basketball National Championship ...
The daughter of an African-American father and Japanese mother was crowned Miss Universe Japan on March 12. Lagasse and Yenni run for Jefferson Parish president
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer They finally believe that John Young is going to actually qualify to run for Lieutenant Governor, at least to the extent that Mike Yenni and Elton Lagasse ... Kingsley House to begin construction on new building
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer On April 2, Kingsley House will break ground on a 24,000 sq. ft. facility located next to its historic campus at 1600 Constance St. Impact of Roe v. Wade on Black community an ongoing debate
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper) – In 1967, Dr. Dorothy Lavinia Brown, the first African-American woman surgeon in the South and a ... Is Jindal’s budget the death knell of La. higher ed.?
By Kari Dequine Harden Contributing Writer If legislators don’t find a way in the next session to offset at least some of Gov. Piyush Jindal’s ruthless slashing of the state’s higher education ... Criminal justice system needs reform
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist top cash advance Oakland I know from firsthand experience that the “criminal justice system” today in the United States is in serious and urgent need ... Looking beyond Ferguson
By Claud Anderson NNPA Guest Columnist The lack of respect for a Black man’s life, rights and contributions became infused into the nation’s national spirit and codified in the legal and ...
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