May 2017 Archive

Bill to celebrate 400 years of Black history passes U.S. House
By Lauren Victoria Burke Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) – In a rare display of bipartisanship in Congress, the United States House of Representatives voted to establish a commission to examine 400 ...
CARL LEBLANC
Carl LeBlanc, renowned guitarist and bajoist, up close and personal
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Guitarist and banjoist Carl LeBlanc celebrates his 62nd birthday and 50 years in the music business on Saturday, May 26, 2017 uptown at Dos Jefes Cigar Bar. ...
Monument contentions in Black and white
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Irony abounded when mounted police officers cordoned off the equestrian statue of P.G.T. Beauregard from those protesting its removal from the entrance of City Park on evening ...
Decreasing healthcare, losing Medicaid expansion in La. is risky, life-threatening
There are very few things, if any, more important in life than our health. As such, it’s important that we as Louisiana residents are mindful of the gains we’ve made ...
DeVoid at Bethune Cookman: We must be the resistance
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I could not be more proud of the students at Bethune Cookman University than if I had raised them myself. Responding to the University’s very ...
Trump wages war on Obama’s legacy
By Lauren Victoria Burke NNPA Guest Columnist There was the proposed massive budget cut to the Department of Housing and Urban Development; the incessant rhetoric about a rise in crime in ...
Death by tax cuts: The GOP health care
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Donald Trump hosted a celebration in the White House Rose Garden for House Republicans after they passed their party’s health care plan by the thinnest of ...
I ask again, do you want Pence?
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist There has never been a single moment before, during, and now especially after, the election of #45 Trump that the call for his impeachment ...
A blow to Jim Crow
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Nearly two decades into the 21st century, it appears as though New Orleans might be almost ready to enter the 20th century.
City meets deadline for removing four Confederate-era monuments
Just hours after a heated argument led to a violent attack on someone calling for the removal of the city’s Confederate-era monuments, the City of New Orleans took down the ...

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