August 2018 Archive

As Trump distorts NFL players’ messages, let’s instead join together
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As teams gear up for the NFL season, President Trump is reviving his destructive and diversionary attacks aimed at turning fans against players. The league office ...
Freed New Orleans man gets new lease on life after 21 years
Kevin Santiago was sleeping at the Orleans Justice Center on June 26 when a deputy called his name. “She opened the door, told me I was rolling out,” ...
Dems, GOP support efforts to do away with Jim Crow-era split-jury law
In a move rarely witnessed in a Red state in the Deep South like Louisiana, a bipartisan coalition is working to gain voter support for a proposal ending the state’s ...
After school was closed for asbestos concerns, relocation site faced the same problem last week
By Marta Jewson The Lens Two green construction dumpsters with “DANGER asbestos” warnings taped on them sat in front of the old McDonogh 35 building on Kerlerec Street Thursday morning. They were ...
To tame prescription prices, HHS dips a toe into drug importation stream
By Rachel Bluth Contributing Writer (Special from Kaiser Heath News www.khn.org) — It came as something of a surprise when Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar announced that the administration was ...
Trump administration loosens restrictions on short-term health plans
By Julie Appleby Contributing Writer (Special from Kaiser Health News) — Insurers will again be able to sell short-term health insurance good for up to 12 months under final rules released last ...
Ida B. Wells gets a street named after her in Chicago
The Chicago City Council has renamed a short stretch of Congress Parkway in the Loop in honor of Ida B. Wells-Barnett, a journalist who publicized to both ...
Cops involved in Eric Garner’s death will face internal-police charges
(BlackmansStreet.Today) — Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City cop, who choked to death Eric Garner on camera for the high crime of selling untaxable-loose cigarettes as Kizzy Adonis, his supervisor, ...
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE)
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist Now that you have read an almost unreadable title, pause a while and peer into the scary, melancholy, depressing world of people engaged in mortal combat ...
Museum tells authentic stories from the Civil Rights Movement
By Freddie Allen Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — In the early morning hours of January 10, 1966, civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr. was jolted from his sleep, as members of the ...

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