April 2016 Archive

Finding support for seniors facing challenges living alone
By Lisa Esposito Contributing Writer Part II (Special from U.S. News & World Report/New America Media) – Your parent prizes his or her independence and insists on living at home, alone. However, you ...
Davis Satcher, former Surgeon General makes plea for equity in health care
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Capital Outlook) – Leadership and equity are two important elements that must be in place if any serious dent is going ...
Two Confederate-era monuments defaced in New Orleans
Just days after a state Senate committee in Baton Rouge rejected a bill aimed at preventing local governments from removing or relocating historical monuments across the state without the approval ...
Increased mobile phone use by Blacks fuels new economic justice controversy
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — It is a rare conversation in Black America. Phrases like “sponsored data” and “zero-rated programs” and “free data” are simply not bread and butter ...
OPSB endorses return of schools by 2018
By Kari Dequine Harden Contributing Writer Ten years later, the Recovery School District (RSD) remains firmly entrenched in New Orleans, and remains the governing authority of the vast majority of the city’s ...
N.O. receives $1.5M to reduce the city’s prison population
By Prescotte Stokes, III Contributing Writer The City of New Orleans has received a $1.5 million grant to help implement reforms to safely reduce the city’s jail population. Mayor Mitch Landrieu ...
LEO NOCENTELLI
Leo Nocentelli – home at last
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer “I look forward to Jazz Fest and I don’t have to leave this time,” says guitar wizard Leo Nocentelli, who after 33 years of residing in Los ...
The poor face housing crisis
By Marian Wright Edelman George Curry Media Columnist “I was in Newark and Harlem this week and I walked into the homes of welfare mothers. I saw them in conditions - no, ...
State budget crunch: Gov. Edwards cuts four hospitals
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer In his testimony Tuesday, April 12, 2016 before the State House Appropriations Committee, Commissioner of Administration Jay Dardenne said that he and his staff met with the ...
The Clinton crime bill in context
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Former President William Jefferson Clinton mixed it up with Black Lives Matter activists as he defended his Presidency, and his 1994 crime bill, when he was campaigning ...

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