September 2020 Archive

Black Lives Matter t-shirts and masks – who profits?
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I always smile when I see Black Lives Matter T-Shirts until I saw one gracing the grubby back of a white man who had on both a ...
Ironic contradiction
By Dr. E. Faye Williams TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Albert Einstein is attributed with saying, “It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.” I am uncertain as to what ...
What Senate Democrats can do to muck up Trump’s SCOTUS bum rush
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist The universal consensus on Trump and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s speed rush to fill Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat is that Senate Democrats can do nothing ...
RBG, notoriously honorable
Cruel words came from countless conservative critics upon the death of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg. Cheers that Trump would appoint an originalist justice to replace the progressive icon ...
More than dog whistles
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Columnist We know what this is. I’m the least racist person you know,” Trump said while campaigning in 2016. He lied. Michael Cohen, his former attorney and fixer ...
Louisiana 4th grader suspended for having a BB gun in a virtual classroom
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Woodmere Elementary 4th grade student KaMauri Harrison was suspended from school for six days for briefly handling a BB gun in his bedroom during a virtual class.
Midwife Kiki Jordan examines TaNefer Camara during a routine postnatal visit about a week after the birth of her son, Esangu. In centuries past, Black midwives often functioned as spiritual advisers and parenting teachers as well as birth attendants. Photo by Rachel Scheier, courtesy of khn.org
Black women are turning to Midwives to avoid COVID and ‘feel cared for’
By Rachel Scheier Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — From the moment she learned she was pregnant late last year, TaNefer Camara knew she didn’t want to have her baby in a ...
OPSB rolls forward property tax rate, adopts new process for charter approvals
By Marta Jewson The Lens The Orleans Parish School Board on last Thursday approved a tax measure on its facilities fund property tax that will net an additional $1.7 million in revenues ...
New Orleans doctors, medical researchers adapt to FDA plasma therapy authorization, but questions linger
By Philip Kiefer The Lens At the end of August, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma, allowing hospitals to administer the plasma without participating ...
NIH ‘very concerned’ about serious side effect in Coronavirus vaccine trial
By Arthur Allen and Liz Szahbo Contributing Writers (Special from khn.org) — The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was ...

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