September 2017 Archive

Trump is infected with racism, and testimonials won’t excuse it
By Rev. Dr. Susan K. Smith Guest Columnist It is confusing to listen to people who engage in racist behavior insist that they are not racist. There are several definitions of racism that ...
Public policy after Hurricane Harvey
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Hurricane Harvey did everything people said it would do, and more. It either drowned or swallowed everything it touched in Corpus Christi, Houston, Beaumont, the ...
My reaction to Charlottesville
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The barrage of commentary from the Charlottesville confrontation by lovers and supporters of the former Confederate States of America, especially in regards to General Robert ...
Never-ending season of hate
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor It would be inaccurate and myopic to say that it is open season on Black men in America. With Black men and boys — as well as ...
NOPD lauded for new system that detects faulty cop practices
U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan, the federal judge overseeing the 492-point NOPD consent decree aimed at implementing reforms that bring the troubled police department up to federal standards for constitutional ...
Xavier student working on a lab project
Med school in New Orleans East becomes mayoral topic
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Blacks remain underrepresented among U.S. doctors, even with affirmative action policies that address discrimination. Management consultant Troy Henry, a candidate for New Orleans mayor this fall, believes ...
On Aug. 19, members of Black Youth Project 100 staged a protest at the New York monument to Dr. James Marion Sims, an Alabama surgeon who performed surgeries on enslaved women without anesthesia. There are also monuments to Sims in Alabama and South Carolina.
Monuments to the father of gynecology honor brutality against Black women
By Rebekah Barber Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — Once again, white-supremacist violence — like that which killed Heather Heyer and injured dozens of others last month during the “Unite ...
Thousands of clergy march from the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial toward the U.S. Department of Justice on August 28. It was an outcry to the Trump Administration on the 54th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington.
Thousands of ministers march for justice and peace, against ‘political laryngitis’
By Alant Millow Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — More than one thousand religious leaders from across the nation gathered Monday morning at the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial in a “Minister’s March for ...
White supremacists joked about using cars to run over opponents before Charlottesville
By George Joseph ProPublica Nearly a month before a car driven by an alleged neo-Nazi plowed into counter-protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Aug. 12, white supremacists planning the “Unite the Right” ...
In the wake of Hurricane Harvey, Katrina survivors face familiar challenges
By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer Blue Tarp. FEMA Numbers. Road Home. Army Corp of Engineers. Refugees—all part of what became the Katrina lexicon in New Orleans.

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