September 2016 Archive

Report says African Americans have been ‘locked out’ of home ownership
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer The homeownership rate for African Americans is now lower than the national homeownership rate was during the 1930s, as the United States was in the throes of ...
Deplorables?
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist DEPLORABLE (adj) — Causing or being a subject for censure, reproach, or disapproval; wretched; very bad (Dictionary.com) If you accept television pundit opinions, Hillary Clinton did ...
Connecticut education ruling is endorsement for Main Street Marshal Plan
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League Connecticut Superior Court last week didn’t just tell the state to fix its broken funding system, it essentially relegated the system to the ash ...
Unbridled testosterone driving world leaders
Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith Guest Columnist As people express their respect for GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump, the adjective that comes up repeatedly is that he is “tough.” People ...
Stop the payday debt trap
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Between the unemployment rate report that was released in early September, and the Census report on income and poverty that was released on September 13, President Obama ...
Vigilance on our 91st birthday
Ninety-one years was the span of time from Abraham Lincoln's signing of the Emancipation Proclamation to Supreme Court's ruling in Brown versus Topeka Board of Education case. Ninety-one years separated ...
Lil Wayne’s World
By Edmund W. Lewis, Editor I guess y’all heard by now that N.O. — born rapper Lil’ Wayne said recently that there’s no racism in America. The gold-toothed skateboarding rapper ...
Owner Burnell Cotlon, center, opens the Lower Ninth Ward Laundromat at a ribbion cutting on Sept. 15 with his mother Lillie Mae Cotlon, second left; Councilman James Gray II, second from right; and Cotlon's wife, Keisha, at right.
The Ninth Ward’s humanitarian does it, again
By Kaelin Maloid Contributing Writer They told Burnell Cotlon he was crazy. After Hurricane Katrina, the Lower Ninth Ward, like much of New Orleans, needed some help. As the citizens tried to ...
Descendents of Georgetown slaves sold to finance university have roots in New Orleans
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer In 1838, the Jesuit priests of Georgetown University sold 272 men, children and women to plantations in Baton Rouge, to pay off debts for an institution that ...
Federal courts blunt voter suppression efforts in five states
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — In the span of thirty days, federal judges have scuttled voter suppression laws in North Carolina, Texas, Wisconsin, Kansas and North Dakota, giving ...

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