May 2019 Archive

Right-wing disrupters
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Columnist Recently, I saw two separate stories about right-wing disrupters. In one case, a well-known bookstore in the Washington, D.C. area, “Politics & Prose,” was visited by ...
Imagine a nation of equality and justice for all!
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Those of us of the darker hue in the USA have never known what a nation of justice for all looks like. That doesn’t stop ...
School choice or no choice?
Another school year is coming to a close. And what have we learned, again? The experiment to switch from public schools, under the guidance of the publicly elected Orleans Parish ...
A win for Jeff. Parish
Seventy-two percent of the voters in normally taxophobic Jefferson Parish voted to hike their property millages by $28 million on May 4, raising the pay of many teachers starting out ...
Take notice!
While most recent media attention has centered on the four major white Democratic presidential candidates, the policy that may constitute the party platform in 2020 election has been being crafted ...
AMARIS LEWIS
Local student earns $2.675M in scholarships
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer When applying for colleges for fall 2019, Lusher Charter School senior Amaris Lewis reached for the stars. She applied to a dozen highly competitive schools: Harvard, Yale, ...
Once defiant, all four white supremacists charged in Charlottesville violence plead Guilty
By A. C. Thompson ProPublica Last year, when federal authorities arrested and charged four members or associates of a white supremacist gang for their roles in the infamous 2017 “Unite the Right” ...
Black men are still incarcerated at disproportionate levels
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The fact that African Americans make up a disproportionate amount of the United States’ prison population remains a defining characteristic of the nation’s ...
Hate crimes and solutions offered by activists
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Columnist (NNPA Newswire) — As investigators continue to look into the string of fires at historically Black churches in Louisiana, it has become increasingly obvious that these ...
Experts: ‘Jury of your peers’ rarely applies to African Americans
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — If accused of a crime, American justice supposedly guarantees the right to a trial in front of a “jury of your peers.”

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