Troubled homeowners can avoid foreclosure with new mortgage modification program
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer (NNPA) – Since 2004 approximately 8 million homes have been lost to foreclosure, according to CoreLogic, a national mortgage data firm. Although the number of ... N.O. state senator calls for constitutional convention
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer The possibility that a state constitutional convention to untangle Louisiana fiscal problems inherent in our basic law may come immediately following the prospective June Special Session. ... Diabetes is pervasive among Blacks
By Glenn Ellis Contributing Writer (George Curry Media) – As rampant as diabetes is in our community, it is well past time we took some serious action. Diabetes is a disease ... Companies owned by Black men declined, but sales increased
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStarNews Today) – The number of Black-male owned businesses with employees declined between 2007, the beginning of the Great Recession, and 2012, the end ... Nothing neutral about the fight over the rebuilding of Napoleon Avenue median
By Bob Marshall The Lens Historians say the term “neutral ground” for street medians in New Orleans dates back to the 1800s when Anglophones and Creoles — who had no great love ... 10 questions you might have about student loans
By Madison White Contributing Writer (Special from TriceEdney-Wire.com) – You hear the dreaded words all the time: student loans. You want to run from them, but can you? Student loans will likely be ... 100 Black Men host well-attended forum on ‘public school unification’
By Kari Dequine Harden Contributing Writer As legislation moves through the house and senate seeking an end to the fractured system of education governance in New Orleans, the 100 Black Men of ... Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Jr., Marian Anderson and Sojourner Truth are on the money
U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew on Wednesday announced redesigns of the $5, $10, and $20 bills with the image of Harriet Tubman, a Union spy and a leader of the ... Central City community welcomes, with open arms, new grocer to area
By Charmaine Jackson Contributing Writer The grand opening of the Dryades Community Public Market marks yet another wave of revitalization for Central City’s Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard. Black women with fibroids have greater cancer risk
By Lisa Chedekel Contributing Writer Black women with a history of uterine fibroids have a 40 percent higher risk of endometrial cancer, a new study shows.
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