Young professionals host brunch in support of breast cancer awareness
The Louisiana Weekly Staff Reports The Urban League of Greater New Orleans Young Professionals will hold its Fourth Annual Pink Ribbon Jazz Brunch on October 17 in support of the fight ... The value of your vote
Early voting in this fall’s local and statewide elections is under way with seats in the state legislature, posts on the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, parish council seats ... Latest massacre won’t shake NRA stranglehold
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist President Obama, stern and visibly shaken by the Oregon massacre, lambasted the NRA yet again for its suffocating grip on Congress. An equally shaken ... Justice or Else: Million Man March 20 years later
Twenty years ago, an estimated million Black men and boys came to Washington, DC by plane, train, bus or automobile seeking to become better sons, brothers, husbands, fathers and grandfathers. ... Common sense and Common Core
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Have you ever wondered why so many elected officials whose campaigns are financed by some of the nation’s wealthiest and most powerful individuals and political action committees ... Ben Carson: The brother from another planet
By Julianne Malveaux Contributing Columnist When neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson started flirting for a Presidential run, I thought he had lost his mind. Now that he has jumped into the ... Alabama’s new Jim Crow far from subtle
By Rev. Jesse Jackson Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist In Alabama, 50 years after Selma, voting rights are once more under assault. Even as Alabama finally took down its confederate flags this ... New Orleans’ IG, IPM at odds over autonomy
The ongoing war of words between the City of New Orleans’ Inspector General and Independent Police Monitor heated up late last week as IPM Susan Hutson fired back at ... ‘Elite’ colleges don’t equalize job market for Blacks
By Jared Wadley Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – Attending a highly selective college may not level the playing field for African Americans when it comes to job offers after graduation. Women living with a gun in the home triple their chances of being shot and killed, says report
By Jazelle Hunt NNPA Washington Correspondent WASHINGTON (NNPA) – Black women were murdered at more than double the rate of white women in 2012 and almost all (92 percent) of these ...
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