Healthcare should not be a bargaining chip
As a graduating senior at LSU, my final year as a Child and Family Studies major is not without its thought-provoking subject matter, yet I find the most enlightening lessons ...
Aging parents at a distance who aren’t really just fine’
By Lisa Esposito Contributing Writer (Special from U.S. News & World Report/New America Media) – “I’m doing fine.” It’s reassuring to hear when you call a parent who lives far away. But ...
Seniors working hard for their money: 10M, many ethnic, in tough jobs
By Paul Kleyman Contributing Writer (Special from New America Media) – A new study estimates that “10.2 million workers ages 58 and older (43.8 percent) were employed either in physically demanding jobs ... Rep. Norton seeks to reduce Black youth unemployment
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (Special from The Washington Informer) – The employment picture remains grim for teenagers and young adults and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that youth ...
State Senate cmte. rejects monuments bill
Those hoping to prevent the City of New Orleans and other local governments throughout the state from removing historical monuments from public spaces without the approval of the State Legislature ... Ex-NOPD officer ordered jailed without bond
On Tuesday of last week, Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Karen Herman postponed the sentencing of former NOPD Officer Wardell Johnson and ordered that he be jailed without bond after ...
A closer look at law enforcement inside our nation’s public schools
By James A. Gilmore Contributing Writer (Special from TriceEdney-Wire.com) – Last month, the Civil Rights Coalition on Police Reform (CRCPR) co-convened by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the ...
Kermit knows it’s all about tradition at ‘Jazz at the Sandbar’
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer It makes sense that when most people think of the University of New Orleans’ music department and its affiliated Jazz at the Sandbar series, modern jazz immediately ... America’s drug wars and its Black victims
By Charlene Muhammad Contributing Writer (Special from The Final Call and New America Media) – A “tell us something we don’t know” sentiment is circulating throughout Black America with an admission that ... How Jindal’s voucher program is like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments
By Michael Holzman Guest Columnist Experiment: Take state tax-payers’ money and give it to failing private schools. Then fill those schools with poor Black children. Procedure: Observe, but do not intervene. Let nature ...
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As a graduating senior at LSU, my final year as a Child and Family Studies major is not without its thought-provoking subject matter, yet I find the most enlightening lessons ...
By Lisa Esposito Contributing Writer (Special from U.S. News & World Report/New America Media) – “I’m doing fine.” It’s reassuring to hear when you call a parent who lives far away. But ...
By Paul Kleyman Contributing Writer (Special from New America Media) – A new study estimates that “10.2 million workers ages 58 and older (43.8 percent) were employed either in physically demanding jobs ... Rep. Norton seeks to reduce Black youth unemployment
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (Special from The Washington Informer) – The employment picture remains grim for teenagers and young adults and the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics revealed that youth ...
Those hoping to prevent the City of New Orleans and other local governments throughout the state from removing historical monuments from public spaces without the approval of the State Legislature ... Ex-NOPD officer ordered jailed without bond
On Tuesday of last week, Orleans Parish Criminal Court Judge Karen Herman postponed the sentencing of former NOPD Officer Wardell Johnson and ordered that he be jailed without bond after ...
By James A. Gilmore Contributing Writer (Special from TriceEdney-Wire.com) – Last month, the Civil Rights Coalition on Police Reform (CRCPR) co-convened by the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and the ...
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer It makes sense that when most people think of the University of New Orleans’ music department and its affiliated Jazz at the Sandbar series, modern jazz immediately ... America’s drug wars and its Black victims
By Charlene Muhammad Contributing Writer (Special from The Final Call and New America Media) – A “tell us something we don’t know” sentiment is circulating throughout Black America with an admission that ... How Jindal’s voucher program is like the Tuskegee syphilis experiments
By Michael Holzman Guest Columnist Experiment: Take state tax-payers’ money and give it to failing private schools. Then fill those schools with poor Black children. Procedure: Observe, but do not intervene. Let nature ...
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