How U.S. handles unarmed Black dissent vs well-armed white dissent
By Askia Muhammad Contributing Writer (Special from The Final Call) — It may be the most egregious insult to the dozens of unarmed Black people murdered by police, in a year when ... City Planning Commission to consider short-term rentals
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer New Orleanians wanting to rent out their properties on a short-term basis may soon be able to do so legally, if New Orleans City Council adopts new ... Banks make billions off of unfair overdraft practices
[caption id="attachment_21046" align="aligncenter" width="600"] This chart shows how consumer bank accounts are affected by overdraft fees.[/caption] By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer (NNPA) — Fees deducted from millions of consumer checking accounts ... Car burned after contractor walks away from Confederate statues project
Less than a week after an attorney for the City of New Orleans told a federal judge that a Baton Rouge-based contractor has backed away from the project that will ... Pres. Obama declares emergency in Flint, Michigan
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – President Barack Obama has declared an emergency exists in Michigan because of high levels of lead found in Flint’s drinking water ... Scholastic pulls children’s book depicting slaves as happy
By EURweb.com A Birthday Cake for George Washington was released Jan. 5 and had been roundly criticized for its upbeat images and story of Washington’s cook, the slave Hercules and his ... AG Lynch: ‘We still have a long way to go to reach the Promised Land’
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — U.S. Attorney General Loretta E. Lynch, giving one among thousands of speeches commemorating the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this year, says, ... New rules mean more kidney transplants for Blacks, Hispanics
By Lauren Nelson Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStar News Today) – New rules for allocating donor kidneys have led to more transplants for blacks and Hispanics, whose access to donor organs had ... The danger of high blood pressure
By Glenn Ellis Contributing Writer (Special from George Curry Media) – Is all the talk about high blood pressure really relevant? The unequivocal answer: Yes! Keeping children healthy, in school and learning
By Marian Wright Edelman George Curry Media Columnist Brandon, a six-year-old in the Houston Independent School District, had two working parents until his father was laid off. Brandon lost his health ...
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