July 2020 Archive

ACLU seeks potential plaintiffs to challenge police practices
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer The ACLU of Louisiana announced last week that it is seeking citizens who have been attacked physically or emotionally by law enforcement officers to contact the organization ...
Why do we need to be convinced?
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Jane Elliott said, “If we didn’t have all those years when Black lives didn’t matter, we wouldn’t have to have a Black Lives Matter Movement ...
Adding fuel to the fire of our pandemics
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Nero, the Roman Emperor who legendarily fiddled while Rome burned is a symbol for an irresponsible, ineffective, and callous leader who shows indifference to people in crisis. ...
John Lewis, a founding father of American democracy
By Jesse Jackson TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist When John Lewis left us, editorials and columns paid tribute to his leadership, his courage, his moral example. The praise was well deserved. A broader context ...
What is facism?
Donald J. Trump Sr.’s attempt to turn our democracy into a fascist state began way before he sent secret militiamen, with no identification, to arrest protesters and shove them in ...
Report: New Orleanians don’t earn enough to afford even modest housing
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer The recent release of an annual report by the National Low Income Housing Coalition reveals that many New Orleanians don’t earn a high enough wage to afford ...
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Why doctors keep monitoring kids who recover from mysterious COVID-linked illness
By Fred Mogul of WYNC and Maria Godoy of NPR News Contributing Writers (Special from khn.org) — Israel Shippy doesn’t remember much about having COVID-19 — or the unusual auto-immune disease it ...
Consent decree plaintiffs, Justice Department OK handing control of jail back to Gusman
By Nicholas Chrastil The Lens After more than four years of being run by an appointed compliance director rather than an elected official, it appears likely that the day-to-day operations of the ...
Environmental consortium relaunches in pursuit of social justice
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer As a lifelong resident of St. John the Baptist Parish, Robert Taylor watched as the demographics of his hometown changed once the massive, powerful DuPont chemical company ...
About 3,800 people apply for Entergy bill relief program in first ten days, company tells City Council
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens About 3,800 people have applied so far for the City Council Cares program — a $22 million energy bill relief initiative that was launched at the ...

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