Cure sought for the soaring cost of insulin
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (NorthStarNews Today) — U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders and Congressman Elijah Cummings have asked the U.S. Justice Department and the Federal Trade Commission to investigate the rise ... Reports document link between Trump election, hate incidents
By Rebekah Barber Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — Recently the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) released two reports documenting the correlation between hate incidents and President-elect Donald Trump’s win on ... Tulane’s forum on public transit exposes frustration of commuters
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer At Tulane University’s Hillel House, panelists addressed questions of how New Orleans can create more accessible and more efficient public transit in the forum “Intersection: Public Transit, ... Blues icon highlights meeting’s ‘New Lens’ on Black aging research
By Penny Dickerson Contributing Writer (Special from Florida Courier/New America Media) — Little Freddie King is a New Orleans blues legend. He’s a self-taught guitar player, who has always used his thumb ... Glenn’s earth orbit got a boost from a Black woman mathematician
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (NorthStarNews Today) — Astronaut John Glenn, who was the first American to orbit the Earth, owed the success of his mission and his peace of mind ... National Bar Association alarmed by racist comments
(NorthStarNews Today) — The National Bar Association (NBA), which represents 60,000 Black attorneys, judges, educators and law students, said it is alarmed by racist comments made by judges and court ... Catholic Bishops apologize for role in genocide
(TriceEdneyWire.com/Global Information Network) — Twenty-two years after the genocide in Rwanda which took the lives of over 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, the Catholic Church in Rwanda apologized last ... Legendary saxophonist, Herbert Hardesty, dies
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Saxophonist Herb Hardesty, a core and decades-long member of Fats Domino’s band, knew what audiences wanted when they came to a show headlined by the legendary ... Pioneering Black broadcaster and promoter is immortalized
Larry McKinney, a legendary Black broadcaster and music promoter who paved the way for many of today’s broadcasters of color and radio personalities, was honored in a way that ... N.O. group joins in a discrimination suit against Fannie Mae
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Fannie Mae’s foreclosed homes can be a bargain, and you might have considered buying one. But in enclaves of middle- and working-class African Americans and Latinos, ...
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