Ahead of tricentennial, Maafa celebration honors ancestors
[caption id="attachment_25818" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Ashé co-founder Carol Bebelle and Luther Gray discuss the 17 annual Maafa with NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow Tiana Hunt. (Photo: Darrell Larome Williams, NNPA/DTU Journalism Fellow)[/caption] By Tiana ... Report: Black women work hard but earn less than most Americans
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Editor’s Note: This is the first in a series of articles on “The Status of Black Women in the United States” recent study. Black women are swimming upstream, ... NOPD is slammed over use-of-force incidents
While the NOPD has reduced the number of use-of-force incidents and is working to make more data available to the public, the department, which has been implementing a federally mandated ... More questions about City’s statue-removal budget
Several weeks after the completion of the statue-removal project that took down four Confederate-era statues from their public spaces across the city, a new round of questions about the $2.1 ... Environmental racism persists
By Glenn Ellis Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Environmental racism is the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color. The lead poisoning of children in Flint is only the latest ... Cuts to Medicaid devastating for rural kids
By Viji Sundaram Contributing Writer (New America Media) — House Republicans’ threatened cuts to Medicaid would be devastating for children living in rural areas, according to a new study by researchers at ... Essence Fest – Beyond the Dome’s main stage
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer It’s only natural that the spotlight shines the brightest on the big name stars like Diana Ross, John Legend and Mary J. Blige, who arrive at Essence ... The WTC Hotel 20 years too late
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Just shy of 20 years ago, this newspaper featured an article highlighting the “Two Visions” for the restoration of the increasingly decrepit World Trade Center, and its ... Charter school kept two homeless children out of class for a month because they didn’t have uniforms
By Marta Jewson The Lens The state Department of Education cited Sophie B. Wright Charter School for keeping two homeless students out of class for a month because they didn’t have school ... City hosts buybacks to get guns off of streets
By Della Hasselle Contributing Writer More than 100 guns were collected Saturday, June 17, at the second citywide gun buyback event hosted by District “C” Councilmember Nadine Ramsey.
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