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What are you doing daily to improve conditions in your community and to ensure that things get better for people who have been systematically and historically locked out of the ...
Raising the minimum wage has a negligible effect on jobs
By William Spriggs Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As states, cities and municipalities across the country raise wages to improve the lives of working people, it is worth highlighting how such moves affect ... Pope Francis should make us rethink Louisiana schools’ zero-tolerance policies
Pope Francis knelt before 12 children and washed their feet, choosing to perform the Holy Thursday ritual at a juvenile detention facility in Rome. One of the most important men ... Blacks missing from political circus
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Here is something to think about as we watch the political circus that is currently dominating the news: Black people are nowhere to be found in the ... Black homeownership matters
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist What is important to 45 million Black Americans today should be important to all Americans. Yet, as the economy in the United States continues to ... 90 years and counting
This week marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of The Louisiana Weekly, one of the oldest Black newspapers in the Deep South and a beacon of enlightenment, hope and ... A moral imperative to protect Voting Rights
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League Addie Mae Collins. Carol Denise McNair. Carole Robertson. Cynthia Wesley. Fifty-two years ago this week, their lives were taken in what Martin ... A look back in time at decades of fighting for education equity in New Orleans
By Kari Harden Contributing Writer Since the birth of public schools in New Orleans in 1841, the battle to ensure equity for all students has been waged on many different fronts, in ... According to study, Blacks not likely to support Black Republican candidates
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper) – Party undermines race among African-American voters; a new study finds, signaling a potentially hard sell for ... Tuskegee Airman Dr. Calvin Moret dies
The New Orleans community is mourning the passing of Dr. Calvin Moret, a World War II veteran and the last-known living Tuskegee Airman in Louisiana, who passed away Sept. 11 ...
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What are you doing daily to improve conditions in your community and to ensure that things get better for people who have been systematically and historically locked out of the ...
By William Spriggs Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As states, cities and municipalities across the country raise wages to improve the lives of working people, it is worth highlighting how such moves affect ... Pope Francis should make us rethink Louisiana schools’ zero-tolerance policies
Pope Francis knelt before 12 children and washed their feet, choosing to perform the Holy Thursday ritual at a juvenile detention facility in Rome. One of the most important men ... Blacks missing from political circus
By James Clingman NNPA Columnist Here is something to think about as we watch the political circus that is currently dominating the news: Black people are nowhere to be found in the ... Black homeownership matters
By Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr. NNPA Columnist What is important to 45 million Black Americans today should be important to all Americans. Yet, as the economy in the United States continues to ... 90 years and counting
This week marks the 90th anniversary of the birth of The Louisiana Weekly, one of the oldest Black newspapers in the Deep South and a beacon of enlightenment, hope and ... A moral imperative to protect Voting Rights
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League Addie Mae Collins. Carol Denise McNair. Carole Robertson. Cynthia Wesley. Fifty-two years ago this week, their lives were taken in what Martin ... A look back in time at decades of fighting for education equity in New Orleans
By Kari Harden Contributing Writer Since the birth of public schools in New Orleans in 1841, the battle to ensure equity for all students has been waged on many different fronts, in ... According to study, Blacks not likely to support Black Republican candidates
By Zenitha Prince Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper) – Party undermines race among African-American voters; a new study finds, signaling a potentially hard sell for ... Tuskegee Airman Dr. Calvin Moret dies
The New Orleans community is mourning the passing of Dr. Calvin Moret, a World War II veteran and the last-known living Tuskegee Airman in Louisiana, who passed away Sept. 11 ...
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