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By Susan Buchanan Contributing no credit check cash loans Writer After the Bayou Corne sinkhole opened in August 2012, 182 houses and businesses were under mandatory evacuation orders from Assumption Parish. A ... Louisiana tribe renews fight for federal recognition in the face of sinking lands, environmental disasters
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By Susan Buchanan Contributing no credit check cash loans Writer After the Bayou Corne sinkhole opened in August 2012, 182 houses and businesses were under mandatory evacuation orders from Assumption Parish. A ... Louisiana tribe renews fight for federal recognition in the face of sinking lands, environmental disasters
By Allie Yee Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — On the fifth anniversary of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the United Houma Nation (UHN) of southern Louisiana ... Local businesses primed to capitalize on healthcare, bioscience in city
By Charmaine Jackson Contributing Writer With the growing emergence of healthcare and bioscience companies in New Orleans’ BioDistrict, including the newly constructed University Medical Center slated to open in August, opportunities for ...
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer payday loans in rock island il To paraphrase an old, often expressed saying, the second, four-day weekend of Jazz Fest should be undertaken as a “marathon not ... Four reasons to vaccinate your child
By Shantella Y. Sherman Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper) — Through advancements in medical science, children can be protected against more diseases than ever before. Some diseases, ... Bloody week in New Orleans as residents gather to remember slain loved ones
Dozens of residents gathered in front of NOPD headquarters Wednesday evening to talk about the loved ones they have lost to violence and the city’s ongoing struggle with violent crime. ... First Lady praises N.O.’s effort to solve homelessness of veterans
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Each year, thousands of veterans end up living on American streets after serving in conflicts abroad after more than five decades of recent American involvement overseas. But ... Dealing with the school-to-prison pipeline
By Kari Dequine Harden Contributing Writer A group of educators, students, lawyers, city officials and other concerned community members gathered at Loyola Law School recently for a town hall meeting titled, “The ... Black America missing nearly half of its economic share
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Amidst continued struggles to maintain voting rights, protests to end shootings of unarmed Black males by police and a constant press to lower ... Black women face pay gap
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) — Black women working full time earned just 64 cents for every dollar white men made in 2013, according to a new report by ...
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