Freedom talk
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor It’s hard to believe, but 2015 is finally coming to an end. It is a year that will be remembered for many things, among them the successful ...
Meals on Wheels brings food and cuts loneliness
By David Orenstein Contributing Writer When Congress passed the Older Americans Act in 1965 to support elderly people who were struggling—often alone—to continue to live at home, a major plank of the ... Federal judge recuses herself from ex-cop Len Davis’ case
U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan on Monday recused herself from the death penalty case against former NOPD Officer Len Davis, more than two decades after she began overseeing the high-profile ... ‘Serial rapist with a badge’ is convicted of raping 8 Black women
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – An Oklahoma City jury convicted one of its former police officers of raping and sexually victimizing eight Black women and the ... Justice Scalia’s racist view of Black students based on ‘myth’
By George E. Curry Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special from George Curry Media) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s view that students of color are better matched at “a less advanced ...slower track” ... Police receive new guidelines for domestic violence, sexual assault cases
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer When convenience store clerk Sara Reedy was 19, a serial sex offender sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. Reedy did everything an assault victim is supposed to do, according ... Council votes in favor of removing Confederate monuments
By Michael Patrick Welch Contributing Writer In a six-to-one vote on Dec. 17, New Orleans City Council decided to relocate four Confederate, reconstruction-era monuments. The four “nuisance” monuments—commemorating Robert E. Lee (Lee ... Top U.S. Senate staff falls short on diversity
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – The U.S. Senate has been called the world’s greatest deliberative body, but it’s not very diverse and neither is its top ... Volkswagen apology ads ignore Black, Latino media
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA News Wire) – Still facing an uphill battle to regain its reputation as a trusted automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen has turned a blind-eye to consumers ...
N.O. native is knighted by French government
The Reverend Doctor Cornelius Tilton, the longtime pastor of the Irish Channel Christian Fellowship Church in New Orleans, has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight in ...
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By Edmund W. Lewis Editor It’s hard to believe, but 2015 is finally coming to an end. It is a year that will be remembered for many things, among them the successful ...
By David Orenstein Contributing Writer When Congress passed the Older Americans Act in 1965 to support elderly people who were struggling—often alone—to continue to live at home, a major plank of the ... Federal judge recuses herself from ex-cop Len Davis’ case
U.S. District Judge Helen Berrigan on Monday recused herself from the death penalty case against former NOPD Officer Len Davis, more than two decades after she began overseeing the high-profile ... ‘Serial rapist with a badge’ is convicted of raping 8 Black women
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – An Oklahoma City jury convicted one of its former police officers of raping and sexually victimizing eight Black women and the ... Justice Scalia’s racist view of Black students based on ‘myth’
By George E. Curry Contributing Writer WASHINGTON (Special from George Curry Media) — Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s view that students of color are better matched at “a less advanced ...slower track” ... Police receive new guidelines for domestic violence, sexual assault cases
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer When convenience store clerk Sara Reedy was 19, a serial sex offender sexually assaulted her at gunpoint. Reedy did everything an assault victim is supposed to do, according ... Council votes in favor of removing Confederate monuments
By Michael Patrick Welch Contributing Writer In a six-to-one vote on Dec. 17, New Orleans City Council decided to relocate four Confederate, reconstruction-era monuments. The four “nuisance” monuments—commemorating Robert E. Lee (Lee ... Top U.S. Senate staff falls short on diversity
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – The U.S. Senate has been called the world’s greatest deliberative body, but it’s not very diverse and neither is its top ... Volkswagen apology ads ignore Black, Latino media
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA News Wire) – Still facing an uphill battle to regain its reputation as a trusted automobile manufacturer, Volkswagen has turned a blind-eye to consumers ...
The Reverend Doctor Cornelius Tilton, the longtime pastor of the Irish Channel Christian Fellowship Church in New Orleans, has been named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Palmes Academiques (Knight in ...
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