April 2018 Archive

Airbnb gentrifies Black New Orleans neighborhoods, report says
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer Short-term rentals are pushing Black residents out of their neighborhoods. That is the conclusion of a report released last week by local affordable housing group Jane Place ...
Fair housing groups sue Facebook for allowing discrimination in housing ads
By Julia Angwin and Ariana Tobin ProPublica In February 2017, in response to a ProPublica investigation, Facebook pledged to crack down on efforts by advertisers of rental housing to discriminate against tenants ...
WALTER 'WOLFMAN' WASHINGTON
The music of Spring is in the air
By Geraldine Wyckoff Contributing Writer Walter “Wolfman” Washington’s Brand New Bag Walter “Wolfman” Washington has long been renowned as an iconic New Orleans blues, rhythm and blues and funk guitarist and vocalist. Recognized first ...
Prep Alumni holds Remember When’s 25th Anniversary in grand style
By Kelly Parker Contributing Writer “It’s a good time to be a Prepper,” says Alumni Association President, Melody Robinson. On the heels of St. Katharine Drexel Prep’s girls basketball team winning a state ...
Trump and the Black vote
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Newswire Columnist President Trump was voted into the White House in 2016 on the backs of the so-called, blue-collar workers, who live in the industrial Midwest of ...
Bipartisan energy for HBCUs
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Congresswoman Alma Adams (D-NC) ain’t nothing but the truth. From the time she was elected to Congress in 2014, she was committed to making a difference. One ...
The Obama leadership still matters
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama did not go into seclusion and act like the rest of the world did not exist ...
We must revive King’s campaign against poverty
By Jesse Jackson Sr. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist April 4 will mark the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., shot down on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in ...
The civic obligation of young Black leaders
By Tiffany Dena Loftin Guest Columnist Who would have thought that in less than 15 days, I would have to coordinate and manage 1,000 young, Black student leaders from over 24 cities ...
#MLK50 – Where do we go from here?
By Marc H. Morial President and CEO, National Urban League As a civil rights organization that worked closely with Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, the April 4 ...

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