March 2018 Archive

Lawmakers in the U. S. Senate seek to gut fair housing
By Charlene Crowell Contributing Writer In just a few weeks, civil rights and housing advocates will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Fair Housing Act. Just six days following the assassination of ...
BLACK INDIANS
A look at Fire in the Hole and Indian Super Sunday
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Victor Harris, the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi, found his spiritual calling on awakening one morning after a night of despair. In 1984, he, along with his ...
JORDAN PEELE
Get Out nets Best Original Screenplay at the Oscars
By Lauren Victoria Burke Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — “I just won an Oscar. WTF?!?” Jordan Peele tweeted after being handed the Oscar for Best Original Screenplay for Get Out during the ...
Fair ‘35
By Edmund W. Lewis Editor How many high schools in New Orleans can you name that are fighting for their very survival in the midst of celebrating their 100th anniversary? How many high ...
Conformist clothing, revolutionary resistance in appreciation of Black Women’s History
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist One of the joys of watching the Black Panther film was enjoying the many ways Afrodescendent women were portrayed. We were protective mamas, and Angela ...
Home-grown reactionaries; not Russians, are greatest threat to our elections
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist This past weekend, we once again gathered in Selma, Ala., to commemorate “Bloody Sunday,” the March 7, 1965, march across the Edmund Pettus Bridge that was savagely ...
Gun safety is about freedom
By Derrick Johnson NNPA Guest Columnist Fear at school was something the Little Rock Nine knew all too well. Facing vitriol, racism, and merciless violence, the Little Rock Nine were escorted, ...
Why voting in the upcoming Judicial Elections is important
By Ashley J. Heilprin Guest Columnist For voters in New Orleans, we have had a number of elections in the past year, but the party is over just yet, there’s still ...
The student loan debt crisis is a Civil Rights issue
By Wade Henderson NNPA Guest Columnist From attacks on voting rights to police killings of unarmed civilians and growing inequities in earnings and wealth, the civil rights gains of the ...
New Orleans, and its police department accused of secretly using controversial software to combat crime
Explosive allegations recently surfaced that accuse the City of New Orleans and the New Orleans Police Department of secretly using policing technology in its effort to fight crime. But City ...

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