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Looking beyond test scores to community

By Dr. Andre M. Perry Contributing Columnist You have to see this handsome, new public elementary school located in New Orleans. We could easily walk

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We have no lasting city here on earth

By Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist The arti unsecured loan terrible, extremely messy and smelly odyssey of cruise ship Carnival Triumph reverberated throughout the United States

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Four score and three and counting
By Fr. Jerome LeDoux Contributing Columnist “Thank God for four score and three” should be the same as “Thank God for today as I live and breathe at the beginning of each ...
The Hard Truth…Five ways to win
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer I know how to win. I know how to win absolute Liberation for Black People. I also know what ...
A salute to the New Orleans resistance
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer I’m in New Orleans for a couple of hours and I’m invited to two meetings that night and a couple of meetings the following week. ...
Let’s roll for ‘Dutch’ Morial
By Dr. Andre M. Perry Contributing Columnist Did you remember we’re in Black History Month? Whether you’re hobnobbing at a ball, chaired along a parade route, or double-fisting in the Quarter, ...
The Hard Truth — Last resort!
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer Christopher Dorner may have answered a question that I have been asking…and then again, maybe not. I’ve been wondering how far the Black community would have ...
NAACP wants the firings of Black women to stop
By J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer In the wake of the firings of two high-profile Black female media personalities, the Shreveport Chapter of the NAACP is putting out a call to action ...
The Hard Truth… Rush to Action? Hell yeah! Part II
By Min. J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer The wheel turns. About 30 years ago I was running into people in the Movement who were saying that we needed more study and less action, ...
Shreveport loses another Black female anchor
By J. Kojo Livingston Contributing Writer Recently Shreveport viewers began to notice the absence of a familiar face on the KTAL 6 news. Anchorwoman Michelle White-Lafitte, who had become a virtual TV ...

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