April 2017 Archive

Morality, race and chemical assaults in Syria
By Roger Witherspoon TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist In 2013, Syria’s President Bashar Al-Assad launched a massive gas attack on civilians which killed more than 1,400 men, women and children. President Barack Obama was ...
Decision to bomb Syria was dangerous, deceptive Decision to bomb Syria was dangerous, deceptive
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Fifty-nine cruise missiles. When Donald Trump ordered the attack on Syria, he made an impetuous decision, turning his previous commitment to stay out of the Syrian civil ...
Gorsuch, like Thomas, will get his big payback
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist Even worse than the GOP’s ramming Neil Gorsuch on the high court, is what Gorsuch is now poised potentially to do on the SCOTUS. ...
‘Get Out’ of America
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor After viewing the trailers, which were somewhat confusing and purposely vague, I really didn't want to see the film Get Out. There was something creepy and very ...
Xavier University researchers develop new treatment to combat cancer
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer Xavier University of Louisiana has released a new study showing that a recently developed “super cocktail” can have significant impacts in fighting breast cancer.
Wrongly convicted man sues NOPD, D.A.’s Office
Reginald Adams, a New Orleans man who spent 34 years behind bars for a murder he didn’t commit, has filed a federal lawsuit against the New Orleans Police Department and ...
Jacob C. Johnson, executive director of the Health Education Authority of La. (HEAL), is the latest African American official or director to come under investigation by the La. Legislative Auditor.
Civil Rights group calls for investigation of La. Legis. Auditor and state offices for discrimination
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer After a succession of African-American officials and directors have been investigated by the Louisiana Legislative Auditor (LLA) a local think tank, Justice & Beyond, is asking the ...
City gets single, expensive bid to remove Confederate monuments
On the same day that marked the deadline for submitting bids for the contract to remove three Confederate-era monuments in New Orleans, city officials announced that the project, which has ...
‘Southern University Massacre’ victims honored by university
More than four decades after Southern University-Baton Rouge undergraduate students Denver Smith and Leonard Brown were fatally shot by an East Baton Rouge Parish sheriff’s deputy during a 1972 campus ...
How will artificial intelligence help aging boomers?
By Randy Rieland Contributing Writer Part 1 (Special from Smithsonian.com/New America Media) – The relationship between humans and robots is a tricky thing. If the latter looks too much like the former, but ...

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