May 2015 Archive

Humana Foundation Selects New Orleans for 2015 Humana Communities Benefit $350,000 Charitable Grant Program
NEW ORLEANS, La. — Local nonprofits focused on addressing diabetes and congestive heart failure have a shot at winning $350,000 in grant funding to help bolster their efforts, the Humana ...
black-fathers
Myth of the ‘absent’ Black dad refuted
By Jazelle Hunt Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Contrary to the myth, though Black men are more likely to live apart from their children than whites, they are more involved in the ...
President Bill Clinton, who novelist Toni Morrison called the first Black president, successfully lobbied for NAFTA and legislation that led to mass incarceration of Black men.
Will the proposed trade agreement be another bad deal for Black workers?
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer Previous deals have cost Black workers hundreds of thousands of manufacturing jobs African Americans have lost 281,000 jobs since China joined the World Trade Organization. (Special from ...
Rep. John Lewis to Hampton graduates: ‘Get in the way’
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Hampton University) - U.S. Rep. John Lewis (D-Ga.) has told 847 Hampton University graduates that it’s their moral obligation to do what ...
SWAC baseball tourney held in N.O. draws small crowd, critics cite lack of publicity
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Last Sunday, May 17, Texas Southern swamped Southern University, 10-0, in the championship game of the SWAC baseball tournament in New Orleans. And while SU coach Roger Cador ...
Landrieu says New Orleans will not tolerate intolerance
It has been often said that even though New Orleans is geographically located in the Deep South, it is not of the South. Similar arguments have said that while the ...
NORD comes under criticism from public at ctme. meeting
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Politics in New Orleans is rarely described as dull and that idea was on full display at a recent meeting of the City Council’s Community Develop­ment Committee. ...
Survival secrets: Why women age more resiliently than men
By Frank Browning Contributing Writer BERKELEY, Calif. (Special from California Magazine/New America Media) — Two women face each other at a small table at the back of a café in Berkeley. A ...
La. Legislative veto session likely
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer While national media attention focused on Governor Jindal’s executive order allowing Christ­ian-owned businesses to refuse to cater to gay marriages, despite the House Civil Law & Procedure ...
Researchers find Black mortality rates higher in racist locales
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper) — A groundbreaking study led by researchers from the University of Maryland College Park’s ...

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