Warren Easton students make the grade in ingenuity
By Eric Craig Contributing Writer A woman’s make-up guide, a shoe-tie guide for children, and a celebrity fashion app for Androids. These are all ideas of ambitious high school students at ... Nearly half of Americans with high blood pressure not controlling it: CDC
(Special HealthDay News) — Nearly half of Americans with high blood pressure are not properly controlling their condition, increasing their risk of heart attack, stroke and heart disease, a new ... With fatal flaw, Gov. Jindal ends his presidential bid
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer “Bobby Jindal could have been the greatest Governor Louisiana ever had,” former Louisiana Democratic Insurance Commis-sioner and Sec. State Jim Brown observed to this newspaper. ... Poll: African Americans see global warming as a major threat
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – Two-thirds of African Americans believe global warming is a serious issue, ranking it as one of four major challenges facing the ... African-centered scholar visited N.O.
Professor James Small, an African-centered scholar who has led tours to continental Africa and throughout the African Diaspora and lectured extensively on African history, culture, ingenuity and spirituality, was in ... U.S. adult smoking rate falls to new low
(Special from NorthStarNews Today) – Less than 17 percent of adults said they smoked in 2014, down from nearly 21 percent in 2005, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control ... CIA turns to HBCUs to help diversify the agency
By George E. Curry Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special from George Curry Media) — After commissioning a report highly critical of the Central Intelligence Agency’s efforts to diversify its staff and senior leadership, ... Fed’s hiring practices are void of diversity
By James Wright Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Afro American Newspaper) — U.S. Representative Maxine Waters recently took the federal government’s financial services ... Fats, the Count and Christian in the spotlight
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer “The Fat Man” Enjoys Immortality in the Grammy Hall of Fame “They call, they call me the fat man,” sang 21-year-old Antoine “Fats” Domino in Cosimo Matassa’s J&M ... Republicans ignore Black people
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Columnist As I watched the Republican debate on October 10, I thought about Kanye West and the comments he made after Hurricane Katrina decimated New Orleans. He said, ...
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