July 2018 Archive

It’s been a rough week!
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I don’t usually complain about a rough week or any rough times. My mantra is “It is through our struggles that we gain ...
Slave-owning Thomas Jefferson and Donald Trump are soulless brothers
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist When reading and hearing about or watching the cold-blooded, despicable way Donald Trump has been treating the children of prospective immigrants to the United States from ...
A wake-up call for Democrats
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I’ve never met Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year old New York activist, but I am surely looking forward to it. This giant-slayer of an organizer (she ...
A letter from America’s children
By Ron Harris NNPA Newswire Guest Columnist Dear U.S. Media, Democrats, Republicans, Independents and to the concerned Americans who poured out into the streets to protest Donald Trump’s cruel and ...
Use a public health approach to reduce gun violence
On March 14 of this year, students across the U.S. left class for 17 minutes – one minute for every person killed in the Marjory Douglas Stoneman High School massacre. ...
Deliberate acts of kindness
You have got to give it up for New Orleans Saints linebacker Demario Davis, who recently made the trek to Texas to reach out to the families negatively impacted by ...
La. prison numbers continue to fall in wake of reforms
This year will be recorded in history as the year Louisiana finally lost its title as the nation and the world’s “prison capitol,” thanks to prison reforms passed last summer ...
NOPD takes heat for withholding video footage from public
Residents hear all the time about the importance of surveillance cameras in helping police solve crimes. But some French Quarter residents told FOX 8 News last week that the NOPD ...
Warriors on the front lines for justice and equality
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Several years ago, while she was an instructor at Tulane University, Rachel Devlin interviewed two African-American women who, when they were girls, were leaders in the fight ...
Former ACLU chief will lead Facebook’s civil rights audit
By Freddie Allen Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Civil rights beacon and ACLU veteran Laura Murphy laughed when she said that one of her co-workers called her, “The Olivia Pope of the ...

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