Orleans schools drop plans to install antimicrobial filters, focusing on lead
By Marta Jewson The Lens The Orleans Parish school district is scaling back an ambitious plan to install lead and antimicrobial water filters at all of its schools. According to an email ...
The contested census citizenship question could cost the South
By Sarah Moore Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — The Trump administration’s proposal to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census has already drawn widespread criticism and lawsuits. But ... The end of the session
That an “eventful” legislative session closed on June 6 constitutes perhaps an understatement, but did the high profile machinations make it a consequential one? Watching a father and son
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire Contributor You must have seen this video. A father speaking with his pre-verbal son about the season finale of “Empire.” The video went viral at warp ... ‘Incognito’ Stop & Frisk law repealed in Shreveport
The Shreveport City Council voted 6-1 last Tuesday to abolish a 2007 Sagging Pants Law that banned people from wearing pants below their butts. Injustice revealed and dramatized
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Many know them as the Central Park Five, but filmmaker Ava DuVernay forces us to see the five wrongfully convicted men as individuals. Their names are names ... U.S. attempt to erase Harriet Tubman
By A. Scott Bolden NNPA Newswire Contributor With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman on ... We’re better than that
By E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I can’t remember a time in my adult life when I wasn’t working on justice issues on behalf of people in my community. I’ve worked for ... Reaction to discovery of contaminated soil in Gert Town
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer On March 31, 2008, Edwin Akujobi, then a staff scientist for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, surveyed a piece of land just north of Earhart Boulevard ...
Mrs. Leah Chase dies at age 96
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer “The Queen of Creole Cuisine” Leah Chase, civil rights activist and co-owner/executive chef at the legendary Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in Treme, passed away on Saturday, June 1. ...
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By Marta Jewson The Lens The Orleans Parish school district is scaling back an ambitious plan to install lead and antimicrobial water filters at all of its schools. According to an email ...
By Sarah Moore Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — The Trump administration’s proposal to add a question about citizenship to the 2020 census has already drawn widespread criticism and lawsuits. But ... The end of the session
That an “eventful” legislative session closed on June 6 constitutes perhaps an understatement, but did the high profile machinations make it a consequential one? Watching a father and son
By Bill Fletcher, Jr. NNPA Newswire Contributor You must have seen this video. A father speaking with his pre-verbal son about the season finale of “Empire.” The video went viral at warp ... ‘Incognito’ Stop & Frisk law repealed in Shreveport
The Shreveport City Council voted 6-1 last Tuesday to abolish a 2007 Sagging Pants Law that banned people from wearing pants below their butts. Injustice revealed and dramatized
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Many know them as the Central Park Five, but filmmaker Ava DuVernay forces us to see the five wrongfully convicted men as individuals. Their names are names ... U.S. attempt to erase Harriet Tubman
By A. Scott Bolden NNPA Newswire Contributor With uniquely American hypocrisy, the Trump Treasury Department has pushed back the 2016 plan to put escaped slave and Underground Railroad heroine Harriet Tubman on ... We’re better than that
By E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I can’t remember a time in my adult life when I wasn’t working on justice issues on behalf of people in my community. I’ve worked for ... Reaction to discovery of contaminated soil in Gert Town
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer On March 31, 2008, Edwin Akujobi, then a staff scientist for the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality, surveyed a piece of land just north of Earhart Boulevard ...
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer “The Queen of Creole Cuisine” Leah Chase, civil rights activist and co-owner/executive chef at the legendary Dooky Chase’s Restaurant in Treme, passed away on Saturday, June 1. ...
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