August 2023 Archive

Longtime New Orleans elected official makes surprise entry to Louisiana Secretary of State race
By Piper Hutchinson Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Less than one year after he announced his retirement from his near four decade-long career in politics, longtime New Orleans politician Arthur Morrell made a ...
Poor credit costs La. drivers more on auto insurance than DWIs
By Claire Sullivan Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Auto insurers in Louisiana and most of the country value good credit scores over safe driving, a recent report found.
Solar panel company to build huge manufacturing plant in Iberia Parish
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — An Arizona company plans to build a $1.1 billion facility in Iberia Parish that will manufacture solar panels with all American-made components.
Tulsa Race Massacre survivors seek reversal of dismissal in historic court appeal
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Lessie Benningfield Randle, Viola Fletcher, and Hughes Van Ellis Sr., the last three known survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, have continued ...
We elect presidents, not kings
By David W. Marshall TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist Today’s conservatives have a major identity crisis. With all the power associated with the U.S. presidency, in the time of national crisis, it becomes vital that ...
The PACT Act fulfills our obligation to veterans
By Rep. James E. Clyburn Assistant Democratic Leader Guest Columnist The United States has long been described as a nation of ideas. The founding fathers wrote that “with a firm reliance on ...
White people were; and still are the only beneficiaries of slavery
By Dr. E. Faye Williams, Esq. TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As I am sitting here watching Special Counsel Jack Smith deliver his statement regarding the third indictment of someone who should never have been ...
It was not a ‘brawl’ but a vicious attack
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist We need to watch our language. The debacle at the Montgomery Pier, where enslaved people were once offloaded and sold, is described as a “brawl.” ...
Women are saving democracy via abortion rights battles
It’s never a good idea to underestimate the power of the fairer sex. Battles for abortion rights over the past three years indicate women voters’ ability to secure not only ...
60 years later, an Anniversary March on Washington planned to rekindle the ‘Dream’
By Hamil R. Harris Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — It was the morning of the 1963 March on Washington and Yale Law School student Eleanor Holmes Norton was so busy organizing buses to ...

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