November 2016 Archive

America faces a time for racial healing
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League As far back as June of last year, the National Urban League called upon all Presidential candidates to refrain from using racially divisive and ...
These are strange days
What is happening to America? The Trump-Pence jolt throws a weird uncertainty over the future. Incoming President Donald Trump vowed to appoint Supreme Court justices who will revoke women’s right ...
Who’s running HBCUs?
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor The very first thing I thought about after witnessing the Dillard University protest of former KKK grand wizard David Duke’s appearance on the historically Black campus was ...
Protesters burn an effigy of Donald Trump in Lee Circle before a march through New Orleans, La, November 9, 2016.
Anti-Trump demonstrations held in N.O. and across the U.S.
A day after GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump shocked the nation and the world by defeating Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to capture the White House, a series of demonstrations ...
Selection of jury delayed in the trial of Dylann Roof
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (NorthStarNews Today) – Jury selection will begin November 21 in the trial of Dylann Roof, a white supremacist, charged in the 2015 murders of nine parishioners ...
Community groups offer rides to voting polls
New Orleans, LA – A Community Voice and Justice and Beyond are offering rides to the polls for voters in the Greater New Orleans area, including Covington, Mandevllle and Lacombe, ...
Police keep protesters from pushing through an auditorium door on Dillard University's campus which hosted a U.S. Senate debate at which former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke participated.
Dillard students react to David Duke on HBCU campus
By Kaelin Maloid Contributing Writer On the left side of the Public Science Building at Dillard University there are a set of doors. They are glass doors, typical for a university. What ...
River diversions to rebuild the coast may not be as water-hungry as we thought
By Bob Marshall The Lens
OPSB candidates asked to sign on to public schools platform
By Kari Dequine Harden Contributing Writer Part of the “Forward New Orleans for Public Schools” coalition, about 20 groups solicited pledges from Orleans Parish School Board candidates for their “Public Schools Platform.”
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Despite Democratic bombshell, Black voting experts anticipate high turn out
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Now less than a week before Election Day 2016, Black voting experts say they see strong and steady voter participation and voter enthusiasm among ...

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