(NNPA)— Legendary civil rights activist and comedian Dick Gregory died August 19. He was 84. Confederate statues are falling, not economic racism
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Cheers to New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, one of the first mayors to take Confederate statues down and to make the strong point that these statues ... Why we need to keep ensuring happy birthdays for Medicare and Medicaid
By Congresswoman Joyce Beatty NNPA Guest Columnist On July 30, our country marked Medicare and Medicaid’s 52nd birthday—enacted as Title XVIII and Title XIX of the Social Security Act, and signed into ... Making racism bad for business
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist In 2015, CNN reported that 49 percent of Americans thought that racism was a big problem in the United States. Not surprisingly, people ... Charlottesville is the GOP’s Frankenstein’s monster
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson New America Media Columnist There are two standard explanations given for why Trump didn’t specifically finger point the Klan and the Nazis and Vanguard America by name. One ... Dick Gregory pioneered using comedy as a weapon against racism
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, The National Urban League In the days following the sickening neo-Nazi rally in Charlottesville, the nation grappled with the best way to confront hostile demonstrations of white ... Kaepernick is a modern-day Spartacus
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor It’s been more than a year since NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick decided to take a stand for equal justice and against unconstitutional policing by taking a knee ... NOPD solving more murders, but still needs to improve response times
NOPD officials said recently that the department is solving more murders. But there are still concerns about the undermanned department’s response times to calls from the public for assistance.
By A.C. Thompson ProPublica The white supremacist forces arrayed in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend — the largest gathering of its sort in at least a generation — represented a new incarnation ... Mayor’s race upended by S&WB privatization threat
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer Sixteen years ago, the City of New Orleans was awash in controversy over the effort to “privatize” the Sewerage and Water Board. In actually, the then-S&W ...
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