[caption id="attachment_31829" align="aligncenter" width="600"] The Roots of Music's Marching Crusaders. Photo courtesy of Roots of Music.[/caption] By David T. Baker Contributing Writer If you’re a fan of music and a fan of cultivating ... Lawmakers introduce bill to examine disparities that impact Black men
By Jane Kennedy Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Nearly five years after Daniel Pantaleo, a New York City policeman, recklessly choked Eric Garner to death, he is just now facing prosecution at ... Bywater development takes a big step forward
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens On Thursday, the New Orleans City Council approved a zoning change that would allow the Housing Authority of New Orleans to move forward with a housing ...
By Marta Jewson The Lens The Orleans Parish School Board is ready to move forward with its plans to trade the historic McDonogh No. 7 school for land atop the former Silver ... Orleans Parish students learn legal lessons on National Law Day
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer When First City Court Judge Angelique Reed recently hosted students from Mary McLeod Bethune Elementary School and Phyllis Wheatley Community School in her courtroom as part of ... Black women lawyers freed 17 inmates serving life sentences
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — “Let’s pause here to give a little credit where credit is due. Freeing 17 prisoners – all of whom were serving life sentences ... Supreme Court to decide soon on Census question
By Shaleen Shah Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from Howard University News Service) — The Supreme Court is poised to decide if the Trump administration acted improperly when ... We must do for ourselves
The historic, thrilling moment experienced by the 2019 graduating class at Morehouse College was a Sankofa event. Nearly 400 graduates were shook, surprised and elated when investor and philanthropist Robert ... Addiction medicine mostly prescribed to whites, even as opioid deaths rose among Blacks
By Martha Bebinger Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — White drug users addicted to heroin, fentanyl and other opioids have had near-exclusive access to buprenorphine, a drug that curbs the craving for ... Police chief defends putting a bag over 12 year-old’s head
(Defender News Service) — Sacramento Police Chief Daniel Hahn, who happens to be Black, is defending a violent arrest of a Black child on Sunday, April 28, which included putting ...
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