Canada’s Viola Desmond civil rights heroine banknote wins international awards while the U.S. Harriet Tubman banknote proposal stagnates
By Rosemary Eng Contributing Writer (BlackmansStreet.Today) — Nearly three years ago the Canadian government asked Canadians to suggest a person to feature on a new $10 banknote and 26,300 suggestions were ... To commemorate Brown vs. Board of Ed, support our teachers
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Sixty-five years ago, the Supreme Court ruled, in the Brown v. Board of Education case, that the Plessy v. Ferguson (1896) doctrine of “separate but equal” was ... Equal Rights Amendment
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist We get so consumed with stuff about the train wreck in the White House that we forget or miss important things going on in ... Brown vs. Board of Ed turns 65
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, (1954), the groundbreaking U.S. law that ended institutionalized racism in the public schools, reached senior citizen status on May 17, 2019. A worthy sacrifice
Infrastructural advocates decried the New Orleans City Council’s decision to outlaw short term rentals on Thursday, outside of owner-occupied homesteads, in other than a handful of commercial locations. The ... For many, retirement is a ‘pie-in-the-sky’ dream
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The nation’s leading public interest group providing seniors and others with information that empowers them to choose how they live, AARP, regularly publishes ... Bill limitingstate’s repeat offenders’ law passes out of committee
By James A. Smith and Hunter Lovell Contributing Writers (LSU Manship School News Service) — A House committee approved a bill on Tuesday that would limit Louisiana’s sentencing law for repeat offenders ... New Crisis: The mass incarceration of women and minorities
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire Special Report) — Although the number of people in prisons and jails in America has slightly declined, numbers released on Thursday, April 25, ... La.’s wind projects are thwarted, while Texas steams ahead
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Texas is the nation’s leader in commercial wind power, while Louisiana remains on the sidelines. Harnessing the wind has taken off in the last decade. But the ... Advisers recommend up to $2M fine against Entergy New Orleans over frequent outages
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The New Orleans City Council’s utility advisers are recommending a $1.5 million to $2 million fine against Entergy New Orleans for failing to adequately maintain ...
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