March 2018 Archive

Fair ‘35
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor Part II It has often been said by ‘35 alumni and others in the community that the school has been “set up to fail.”
Extraordinary sisters
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist For the past 13 years, I’ve worked almost exclusively for Black women and their families which means I spend my time working for our ...
The Republican Party is off to the racists
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Newswire Columnist Five years after the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) infamous “autopsy” report was issued, the party’s standing within the Black community, continues to get worse.
In support of community life and democracy
There are two things you need to know about newspapers. Newspapers are important to community life and democracy. Always have been. We at the National Newspaper Association think it is important ...
La. bill requiring unanimous verdicts in felony cases advances
A Louisiana Senate committee advanced a bill proposing a constitutional amendment that would require juries to reach unanimous verdicts in all felony cases.
GOP Jews run Black Democrats?
By Richard B. Muhammad Guest Columnist (The Final Call) — In one of the more bizarre cases of American politics, a Jewish Republican group called on seven Black Democrats in Congress to ...
Guns for sale at a show in Louisiana
Private sellers at Louisiana’s gun shows do not check backgrounds
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Dozens of big gun shows are held yearly in Louisiana, including greater New Orleans, with one at the Pontchartrain Center in Kenner last weekend. Full-fledged dealers at ...
Man convicted of killing former NFL player Joe McKnight gets 30 years
Ronald Gasser, the West Bank man convicted of manslaughter in a Dec. 1, 2016 road-rage incident that killed former NFL player Joe McKnight, was sentenced last Thursday to 30 ...
BIG CHIEF THOMAS SPARKS
Big Chief Thomas Sparks Sr. has died
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Big Chief Thomas Sparks was a Mardi Gras Indian for a lifetime. The chief of the Yellow Jacket Black Indian gang, Sparks first started masking in ...
New EPI study shows no Black progress in 50 years
By Lauren Victoria Burke Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Americans were the only group that showed no economic improvement since 2000. They based their conclusions on Census data. This year, there was ...

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