Black landowners will benefit from new funding to prevent land loss
By Lizzie Presser ProPublica A property law scholar who has helped secure state protections to keep Black families from losing their land won a MacArthur “genius” award this week, a year after ... List maintenance or voter purges: How the practice of maintaining voter lists became so polarized
By Henry Redman Contributing Writer Editor’s Note: This is the fourth in a series of stories looking at voters’ concerns and voting issues in the 2020 election. (Special from lailluminator.com) — In ... Not all is lost after Census count stop, civil rights advocates say
By Pilar Marrero Contributing Writer (Ethnic News Media) — After a Supreme Court ruling earlier last week allowed the Department of Commerce to stop census enumeration efforts by Friday October 16, advocates ... Black and Missing Foundation founder warns pandemic could further expose the vulnerable
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Within days of each other, separate investigations by the United States Marshals Service in Ohio and Georgia led to the rescue of 39 ... Working women hit harder by pandemic recession, research shows
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer Quarterly figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics illustrate that women in the United States have fared poorly economically during the pandemic, with an overall unemployment rate ... STEM NOLA receives $2.79 M from the DOD
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer New Orleans-based STEM NOLA received a $2.79 million grant this month from the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to expand educational workshops and access across the Gulf ... Monsters are scary. So are brilliant Black women
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist I was frightened of monsters when I was a child. Not so sure why, but my brother, who loved to plague me, used to tell me they ... Joe, stop letting Trump get away with his law and order scam
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist Trump made clear from the start of his reelection campaign that his ticket back to the White House would be scamming law and order. The galling ... The Louisiana Weekly’s 2020 Election recommendations
Early voting began in Louisiana on Friday, October 16, and if ever there was an election where the electorate should run to the polls as fast as possible, it is ... Supreme Court ruling on Voting Rights Act opened floodgates for new restrictions
By Jermey Duda Contributing Writer Editor’s note: This is the third in a series of stories looking at voters’ concerns and voting issues in the 2020 election. (Special from lailluminator.com) — It hadn’t ...
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