February 2018 Archive

Congo Square New World Rhythms Festival
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer The title of this free festival, Saturday, March 3, and Sunday, March 4, presented by the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival takes into account the ...
Shoo fly
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor What would make a white woman working at Fox News who probably doesn’t know a lot of Black people think she has the right to tell a ...
Four percent love guns more than life!
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist We woke up the morning after the Douglas High School tragedy hearing that 95 percent of the American people support stronger background ...
Those who do nothing on gun control fail our children
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The United States is failing in what surely is the first duty of government — protecting our children from threats that they cannot deal with themselves. ...
We need educational equality in our schools
By Kay Coles James NNPA Guest Columnist Frederick Douglass. Condoleezza Rice. Martin Luther King, Jr. Clarence Thomas. Ida B. Wells. Shirley Chisholm. All of these leaders will receive renewed national attention during this ...
The 2nd Amendment and white anxiety
By Oscar Blayton Guest Columnist There has been yet another school shooting in America. The multiple murders at the Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida mark the 18th school shooting in ...
New Orleans East residents decry utility committee vote
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer At the Mary Queen of Vietnam Church last Friday morning, a couple dozen people hustled and hurried across the church parking lot and in and out of ...
Feds forgive post-Katrina debt for Xavier, Dillard and SUNO
Xavier University, Dillard University and Southern University at New Orleans, New Orleans’ three historically Black universities, and Tougaloo College in Mississippi, another HBCU, will see about $330 million in post-Katrina ...
Voluntary relocation, construction limits among the options to deal with rising water along La. coast
By Della Hasselle The Lens After meeting with about 4,000 residents over the course of a year, state leaders are working on a report that could reimagine how communities in southeastern Louisiana ...
Knowing your vital signs is important
By Glenn Ellis Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Anytime you go to the doctor, typically the first things that he/she begins to measure are your Vital Signs.

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