EPA slow to halt use of deadly pesticide
By Viji Sundaram Contributing Writer (Special from New America Media) – On a cool November day in 2009, farmworker Jovita Alfau was transplanting hibiscus as she’d been instructed in a section of ... Companies added 182,000 jobs in October
The nation’s non-farm private-business-sector added 182,000 jobs in October, the Roseland, N.J.-based ADP Employment Report announced on last Wednesday.
Celebrating a neighborhood, the food and the Brass Band traditions
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer The Treme Creole Gumbo Festival celebrates New Orleans 6th Ward neighborhood, a Louisiana signature dish, brass bands and, by chance, the 20th anniversary of the Hot ... Can Kip Holden become the third Black Lt. Governor in the U.S.?
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer If ever there was a chance for an African American to win the Lieutenant Governor’s office, it is on the coattails of a popular Caucasian Democratic Gubernatorial ...
Black presiding bishop installed as head of the Episcopal Church
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — Michael B. Curry, installed on November 1 as the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, is the first African-American ... Black churches show support for government’s environmental plan
By Savannah Harris Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service) – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13 million African-American members — presented ... Area high school confronts gun violence, as it hits close to home
By Allana Barefield Contributing Writer A bright future ended in one split second for Jawara Givens. He was a rising senior at St. Augustine High School, who was at the wrong ... Be part of the solution, not the problem
By Marian Wright Edelman George Curry Media Columnist School children don’t need one more “Officer Slam,” as some students referred to the white South Carolina school resource officer who this week shamed ... Charters and heavy testing hurt our schools
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Contributor Across the country, parents have been in revolt against high-stakes standardized testing, with kids tested over and over again while creativity is cut out of ... Come together
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor I have to admit that I was a little bit moved by the recent formation of a new ministerial group that has come out of the ...
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By Viji Sundaram Contributing Writer (Special from New America Media) – On a cool November day in 2009, farmworker Jovita Alfau was transplanting hibiscus as she’d been instructed in a section of ... Companies added 182,000 jobs in October
The nation’s non-farm private-business-sector added 182,000 jobs in October, the Roseland, N.J.-based ADP Employment Report announced on last Wednesday.
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer The Treme Creole Gumbo Festival celebrates New Orleans 6th Ward neighborhood, a Louisiana signature dish, brass bands and, by chance, the 20th anniversary of the Hot ... Can Kip Holden become the third Black Lt. Governor in the U.S.?
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer If ever there was a chance for an African American to win the Lieutenant Governor’s office, it is on the coattails of a popular Caucasian Democratic Gubernatorial ...
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special from NorthStarNews Today) — Michael B. Curry, installed on November 1 as the 27th Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church, is the first African-American ... Black churches show support for government’s environmental plan
By Savannah Harris Contributing Writer (Special to the NNPA News Wire from HU News Service) – Leaders of the nation’s major Black churches — representing nearly 13 million African-American members — presented ... Area high school confronts gun violence, as it hits close to home
By Allana Barefield Contributing Writer A bright future ended in one split second for Jawara Givens. He was a rising senior at St. Augustine High School, who was at the wrong ... Be part of the solution, not the problem
By Marian Wright Edelman George Curry Media Columnist School children don’t need one more “Officer Slam,” as some students referred to the white South Carolina school resource officer who this week shamed ... Charters and heavy testing hurt our schools
By Rev. Jesse Jackson, Sr. NNPA Contributor Across the country, parents have been in revolt against high-stakes standardized testing, with kids tested over and over again while creativity is cut out of ... Come together
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor I have to admit that I was a little bit moved by the recent formation of a new ministerial group that has come out of the ...
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