Passage of Voting Rights Act was to fix an ‘American problem’
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Fifty years after the 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act, local civil rights groups marked the event with a presentation May 19 at the headquarters of ... Partial amnesty proposed for unpaid parking tickets
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer You may have a couple of parking tickets stashed away in a drawer at home. The city is owed over $180 million in unpaid tickets and other ...
Negro League legend to be inducted in N.O. Professional Baseball Hall of Fame
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer New Orleans University graduate and Negro Leagues legend Dave Malarcher on June 6 will become the second local segregation-era African-American figure inducted into the New Orleans ...
Neighborhood café and barber shop to be featured on reality show segment
By Charmaine Jackson Contributing Writer Five years ago, Tommye Myrick and Phyllis Johnson, owners of The Juju Bag Café and Barber Salon decided it was time to take their Gentilly business to ...
Musical Notes of interest in and around the Big Easy
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Trombone Shorty By Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Abrams Books for Young Readers) “This is a story about music,” writes Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews in this warmly told, ... Landrieu, like other public servants, uses private email account to conduct city business
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu runs Louisiana’s biggest city with virtually no use of his official City of New Orleans email account to communicate with staff, other officials or the ... Black leaders push for nationwide police reform
By Freddie Allen Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the tragic death of Freddie Gray and the protests that followed in Baltimore, Black civic leaders continue to call for ... First Lady resists taking easy way out
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist More than any other first lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama continues to stand above those who would attempt to distort ... Legalized torture of prisoners
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to a 2011 report from the Department ... HB 707 causes controversy, displays Jindal’s hypocrisy
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer The debate over religious freedom laws made its way to Louisiana this spring after a state lawmaker introduced House Bill 707, the Marriage and Conscience Act, that ...
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By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Fifty years after the 1965 signing of the Voting Rights Act, local civil rights groups marked the event with a presentation May 19 at the headquarters of ... Partial amnesty proposed for unpaid parking tickets
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer You may have a couple of parking tickets stashed away in a drawer at home. The city is owed over $180 million in unpaid tickets and other ...
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer New Orleans University graduate and Negro Leagues legend Dave Malarcher on June 6 will become the second local segregation-era African-American figure inducted into the New Orleans ...
By Charmaine Jackson Contributing Writer Five years ago, Tommye Myrick and Phyllis Johnson, owners of The Juju Bag Café and Barber Salon decided it was time to take their Gentilly business to ...
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Trombone Shorty By Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews Illustrated by Bryan Collier (Abrams Books for Young Readers) “This is a story about music,” writes Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews in this warmly told, ... Landrieu, like other public servants, uses private email account to conduct city business
New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu runs Louisiana’s biggest city with virtually no use of his official City of New Orleans email account to communicate with staff, other officials or the ... Black leaders push for nationwide police reform
By Freddie Allen Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – In the wake of the tragic death of Freddie Gray and the protests that followed in Baltimore, Black civic leaders continue to call for ... First Lady resists taking easy way out
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist More than any other first lady of the United States of America, Michelle Obama continues to stand above those who would attempt to distort ... Legalized torture of prisoners
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist Freddie Gray is neither the first, nor will he be the last person to die in police custody. According to a 2011 report from the Department ... HB 707 causes controversy, displays Jindal’s hypocrisy
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer The debate over religious freedom laws made its way to Louisiana this spring after a state lawmaker introduced House Bill 707, the Marriage and Conscience Act, that ...
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