June 2020 Archive
By Kathleen Peppo Contributing Writer (LSU Manship School News Service) — A racially charged debate on the House floor about a resolution to establish a task force to make recommendations about policing ... State Department of Education releases guidelines on reopening schools
By Marta Jewson The Lens The Louisiana Department of Education last Thursday released reopening guidelines for schools as the beginning of the new school year approaches and the state is seeing an ... In Ferriday, an ‘outlaw town,’ the Deacons took a stand
By Karli Carpenter Contributing Writer Editor’s Note: This is the fourth and final installment in this series. (Special from LSU Manship School News Service) — David Whatley, the first Black student to integrate ... Southern University graduate buys property in Houston to curb gentrification
(Black Enterprise via Defender News Service) — Gentrification has changed the social and economic demographics of major cities around the United States, causing many low-income native residents to be forced ... Drinking surged during the pandemic. Do you know the signs of addiction?
By Alex Smith KCUR Reporter (Special from KCUR via khn.org) — Despite the lack of dine-in customers for nearly 2½ long months during the coronavirus shutdown, Darrell Loo of Waldo Thai stayed ... Trump administration withholding $14 billion in critical coronavirus funding
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — With more than 2.3 million confirmed cases of the novel coronavirus in America and a staggering 122,000 deaths, Democratic Senate Minority Leader Chuck ... College football amid a pandemic is not worth the risk to young men’s lives
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist How many lives of young men and women should be sacrificed for entertainment — and for billions in profit? That question can’t be ducked as the NCAA ... Hang together…
Two hundred and forty-four years ago, this week, our nation was born upon the precept that everyone of its citizens “were endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that ... Looters, lowlifes, and liars
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist According to the Washington Post, the 45th president told 19,126 lies between his inauguration in 2017 and June 1, 2020. By now, the number has likely edged ... Wallace bends moral arc of justice within Nascar
It’s very odd, to say the least, that less than two weeks after Darrell “Bubba” Wallace Jr., the only African-American driver in NASCAR’s top series, called on the stock car ...
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