Dance festival to break stigma around mental health
By Jade Myers Contributing Writer Dancing Grounds, a New Orleans-based dance company, will showcase young artists at its third annual “Dance for Social Change Youth Arts and Leadership Festival.” The festival will ... NAACP critical of HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s move to change HUD’s mission statement
The NAACP has expressed deep concern about Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson’s move to dilute the agency’s long-standing mission. Civic groups file suit against Orleans Parish sheriff
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer On March 14, the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Committee (OPPRC) and other local groups filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Marlin Gusman, Darnley R. Hodge, Jared E. Munster, ...
Black history was celebrated during services at local Episcopal churches
By Tylan Nash Contributing Writer Trinity Episcopal Church, in the Lower Garden District, opened their doors on Feb. 17 to the local chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians for a celebration ... La.’s Black Caucus is asserting itself at State Capitol
Despite little being written or said about it, perhaps the biggest elephant in the House and Senate chambers at the Louisiana State Capitol during the recent special session may have ... Razor-thin election results show the importance of voting
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League As the nation this month marks the 53rd anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches, the nation’s attention was riveted to a special election ... ‘Scared Negro disease’ remains
By Gary L. Flowers TriceEdneyWire.com Guest Columnist As another Black History Month has passed, I revisited the relevant speech given by former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson in 2002 while speaking in Portland, ... Trump’s FY 2019 budget hurts Blacks
By Congressman Cedric L. Richmond Guest Columnist If you want to know how a president feels about your community, then all you need to do is look at his or her ... Civility on Social Media is dead
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire Columnist I have found myself increasingly wondering whether social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, constitutes a vehicle for civil dialogue. The number of attacks that ... Budgeting in the Bayou and beyond
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Early in life, I was taught the importance of saving by a man named Jesse Hill from Atlanta, Georgia. His is a piece of ...
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By Jade Myers Contributing Writer Dancing Grounds, a New Orleans-based dance company, will showcase young artists at its third annual “Dance for Social Change Youth Arts and Leadership Festival.” The festival will ... NAACP critical of HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s move to change HUD’s mission statement
The NAACP has expressed deep concern about Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson’s move to dilute the agency’s long-standing mission. Civic groups file suit against Orleans Parish sheriff
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer On March 14, the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Committee (OPPRC) and other local groups filed a lawsuit against Sheriff Marlin Gusman, Darnley R. Hodge, Jared E. Munster, ...
By Tylan Nash Contributing Writer Trinity Episcopal Church, in the Lower Garden District, opened their doors on Feb. 17 to the local chapter of the Union of Black Episcopalians for a celebration ... La.’s Black Caucus is asserting itself at State Capitol
Despite little being written or said about it, perhaps the biggest elephant in the House and Senate chambers at the Louisiana State Capitol during the recent special session may have ... Razor-thin election results show the importance of voting
By Marc H. Morial President/CEO, National Urban League As the nation this month marks the 53rd anniversary of the Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights marches, the nation’s attention was riveted to a special election ... ‘Scared Negro disease’ remains
By Gary L. Flowers TriceEdneyWire.com Guest Columnist As another Black History Month has passed, I revisited the relevant speech given by former Atlanta mayor Maynard Jackson in 2002 while speaking in Portland, ... Trump’s FY 2019 budget hurts Blacks
By Congressman Cedric L. Richmond Guest Columnist If you want to know how a president feels about your community, then all you need to do is look at his or her ... Civility on Social Media is dead
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire Columnist I have found myself increasingly wondering whether social media, particularly Twitter and Facebook, constitutes a vehicle for civil dialogue. The number of attacks that ... Budgeting in the Bayou and beyond
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Early in life, I was taught the importance of saving by a man named Jesse Hill from Atlanta, Georgia. His is a piece of ...
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