April 2020 Archive

For the greater good
The demonstrators who assembled before the Michigan State Capitol to protest Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s continued lock down of her state, and with their protest blocked access to one of the ...
Protesters vs Protesters
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Columnist The death count is mounting and the number of cases due to the novel coronavirus continues to increase amid pronouncements that curves are flattening. In the middle ...
Truth Matters
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Nearly everyday we hear some version of the statement that truth matters, but does it really? Day after day, we hear about the number ...
Will the Coronavirus widen the Achievement Gap?
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist The coronavirus has upended our way of life, especially in urban America, where social distancing has replaced the laughter of children playing on the street, the excitement ...
The city of New Orleans should stay in until May 16
We cannot leave our house, not yet anyway. The newest directive by our mayor, Latoya Cantrell, makes it so. While some may think differently, given our numbers, April 30 was ...
Minorities face disenfranchisement if in-person voting isn’t preserved
As states move to expand voting by mail, a new joint publication from the Center for American Progress (CAP) and the NAACP shows that in-person voting options must be preserved ...
New Orleans East Hospital
As COVID-19 cases increase, La. hospitals take care to ensure they remain resourced
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer As the COVID-19 crisis continues unabated, and as government officials and community leaders grapple with the emerging demographic and sociopolitical realities of the pandemic in Louisiana, steps ...
New Orleans falls short on affordable housing goals
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer
McDonogh 19 awarded $500K preservation grant
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer One of the stops on the city’s modern civil rights trail and the epicenter of the battle to desegregate the New Orleans public school system has received ...
A desperate scramble as COVID-19 families vie for access to plasma therapy
By JoNel Aleccia Contributing Writer (khn.org) — Stephen Garcia’s family is frantic. The auto body worker, just 32 years old, has been on a ventilator in a Los Angeles-area hospital for nearly ...

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