June 2015 Archive

Why the Confederate flag will continue to fly—for now
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney says take it down. Present GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush says take it down. South Carolina Governor Nikki ...
Landrieu apologizes for slavery, racism
By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu earned himself a place in the city’s history books last Wednesday, offering a surprise apology at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for ...
White Chocolate City
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor cash loans in goodna Almost a week after New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s “performance” at Wednesday’s “Welcome Table” event at the Mahalia Jackson Theater for the Performing ...
Unemployment gets worse for Black men
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from NorthStarNewsToday.com) — Lester Nute didn’t have to wait for the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics to tell him ...
Charleston and the South’s sordid history of attacks on Black churches
By Chris Kromm Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) – In the wake of the heinous murders of nine members of Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church this week, many have pointed ...
Closing achievement gaps takes more than education reform
By Freddie Allen Senior Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Education reform alone isn’t enough to close achievement gaps between Blacks and Whites, according to a new report by the Economic Policy Institute ...
Teens, loss and grief
By Shantella Y. Sherman Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American News­paper) — For thousands of youth living in the D. C. metropolitan area, the threat of violence creates ...
PJ MORTON
Celebs partner with local non-profit to promote literacy, higher education
Le Sanctuary, a New Orleans-based non-profit book club, has partnered with Grammy Award-nominated artist PJ Morton and celebrity wardrobe stylist and WE-TV personality, Goo Goo Atkins to present a fresh ...
New air standards could disproportionately affect urban communities
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) - As President Obama moves to implement policies that his administration says will reduce smog levels, he is facing a backlash in the urban and ...
Mighty musical messages in latest releases by artists
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Terence Blanchard featuring E-Collective Breathless (Blue Note) Terence Blanchard’s trumpet blasts off this album with one of jazz-funk’s most memorable and significant tunes, vocalist Les McCann’s and saxophonist Eddie Harris’ ...

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