April 2017 Archive

Candidates for La. Treasurer race for funds
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Two Republican state representatives have been eyeing one another across the floor of the House throughout this legislative session, Representatives Julie Stokes and John Schroder. And ...
Job prospects flat for Black workers in March
By Freddie Allen Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The employment prospects for African Americans showed little improvement in March, according to the Labor Department’s most recent jobs report.
SENIOR CLASS: Life experience enhances back to school
By Deborah Martinez Contributing Writer Second of two articles (Special from KSFR Public Radio/New America Media) — You’re never too old to learn, right?” asks Ronald Weese. Later this year ...
Trump is hiring lobbyists and top ethics official says ‘There’s no transparency’
By Justin Elliott ProPublica President Trump has stocked his administration with a small army of former lobbyists and corporate consultants who are now in the vanguard of the effort to roll back ...
STEVIE WONDER
Jazz Fest – Stevie Wonder returns and the rhythms go Cuban
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer It’s, well, just a wonder that the incredible music master Stevie Wonder found it in his heart to return to the 2017 edition of the New ...
Trump’s avoidance of Black Press reveals tense relations
By Paul Delaney TriceEdneyWire.com Guest Columnist At the very beginning of the new administration, and probably in a moment of hubris, Omarosa Manigault, an aide to President Donald Trump, promised that the ...
We still must get the Every Student Succeeds Act right
Wade Henderson NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist In late March, President Trump signed a resolution to invalidate a regulation designed to help implement the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). This move will ...
Remember the Chibok girls
By Congresswoman Frederica S. Wilson Guest Columnist Three years ago, Boko Haram terrorists burst into dormitory rooms at the Government Secondary School in the northern Nigerian town of Chibok and kidnapped ...
Endorsements for the Saturday, April 29, 2017 Election
It is Spring, and distractions abound. Yet, voting next Saturday is a critical responsibility, with a key Judgeship on the ballot in Orleans, and important funding streams for ...
Take ‘em down already
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Like sand through an hourglass, so are the days of our lives in this little banana republic we sometimes call the City That Care Forgot or Antebellum ...

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