December 2017 Archive

Customers are told to apply for the money they are owed by Western Union before February 12, 2018.
Western Union to pay $586 million to cheated customers
By Frederick H. Lowe Contributing Writer (Special from NorthStar News Today) — The Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Justice Department have reached an agreement with Western Union, the world’s largest money-transfer ...
Music – A gift that keeps on giving this holiday season
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer The gift of music is a very personal one as the sounds continue to be a reminder of a time and the person who might have picked ...
A Change In The Air
Louisianians feel the punishing effects of chemicals in our air that leave some communities seeing cancer risks at over 800 times the national average for lifetime risk of cancer from ...
Strong apprenticeship programs key to addressing the wage gap
By Odie Donald II TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Over the last decades, many American inner cities have seen an economic resurgence. Buoyed by millennials and people’s desire to shorten their daily work commute, neighborhoods ...
Racism in the workplace and the whitewashing of the #MeToo movement
By Julianne Malveaux NNPA Newswire Columnist Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich.) was the first member of the Congressional Black Caucus to leave his job after the “MeToo” hashtag galvanized women to speak up ...
EDMONSON
Former LSP chief fleeced New Orleans for years, audit report alleges
Former Louisiana State Police Supt. Col. Mike Edmonson, who retired earlier this year amid a scandal involving state troopers who took side trips to the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas ...
Pres. Trump: A poster boy for white supremacy
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist It’s time to get real. Donald J. Trump is not an aberration of most white males in the United States of America. In fact, he ...
Jones victory sends message: Ignore the Black vote and lose
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist Democratic Party officials set up a huge table outside a voting precinct in Helena in Shelby County just south of Birmingham. They didn’t try to hide ...
GOP tax bill robs the poor to feed the rich
By Marian Wright Edelman The Children’s Defense Fund The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act recently passed on a nearly straight party line Republican vote in the U.S. Senate is, like the House-passed ...
Denzel, act like you know
I used to be very naive. Believe it or not, there was a time when I actually believed that you had to have book smarts and a solid academic background to ...

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