I won’t be a guinea pig
By Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist One respondent to a Facebook poll in which I again asked, “Now that there’s the likelihood of a COVID vaccine soon will you get vaccinated?” flatly ... New Year’s Resolutions the Biden Administration can make right now
By Ben Jealous Guest Columnist I don’t know about all of you, but it feels to me like Christmas came early this year. Farewell 2020!
If 2020 was a prescription, we could say that it was the nastiest medicine with a spoonful of sugar thrown in. As the worst year in America’s 21st century ends, ... Black people should cease claiming people who want other identities
By A. Peter Bailey TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist While recently watching a television program, “Tiger Woods: America’s Son,” I remembered a January 1992 column in which I listed my greatest wishes for that year. ... N.O. City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other surveillance tech
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The New Orleans City Council passed a new law at its December 17 meeting that regulates certain parts of the city’s surveillance system and places an ... City of New Orleans releases dozens of pages of emails on police use of facial recognition
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens New documents obtained by the ACLU of Louisiana through a public records request are shedding more light on how the New Orleans Police Department utilizes facial ... Carol Sutton, famed actress and Native Orleanian, falls victim to COVID-19
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Local actor Carol Sutton, whose resume boasted over 100 roles in film, stage and television, passed away at Touro Infirmary on December 11 from COVID-19 complications at ... A coalition of major corporations, vows to hire 1 million African Americans in high-paying jobs
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — OneTen, a coalition of leading executives, said it would work to hire one million African Americans into family-sustaining jobs with advancement opportunities over ... JPMorgan Chase Bank wrongly charged 170,000 customers overdraft fees. Federal regulators refused to penalize it.
By Patrick Rucker The Capitol Forum via ProPublica Federal bank examiners considered levying fines and sanctions when JPMorgan Chase informed them last year that faulty overdraft charges caused by a software glitch ... Pediatricians want kids to be part of COVID vaccine trials
By Arthur Allen Contributing Writer (khn.org) — If clinical trials for COVID-19 vaccines aren’t expanded soon to include children, it’s unlikely that even kids in their teens will be vaccinated in time ...
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