Sit Still Sit Quiet: An Increasingly Unfocused Screed About A Nightmare That We’re All Having by Jordan RockPart 4 Every morning I get out of bed (not wake up, mind…
Year: 2020
Still Waiting on Justice
by Kenneth Cooper Yeah, that’s it. Go home. Vote. Elect a black president, a liberal congress, a liberal mayor, a liberal city council, even have a black AG appointed as…
Are Essential Workers at Social Gunpoint
Sit Still Sit Quiet by Jordan RockPart 3 Let me take this opportunity to talk about the bizarre experience of living during a global pandemic, and about how it relates…
Opening Up America Again
Opening Up America Again President Trump has unveiled Guidelines for Opening Up America Again, a three-phased approach based on the advice of public health experts. These steps will help state…
Mayor Says Testing is Necessary
Jeff ThomasPublisher — Black Source Media Jeff Thomas Publisher • Opinion Columnist • Licensed General Contractor • Real Estate Appraiser • New Orleans Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black…
St. Aug Fundraiser
All the proceeds of this fundraiser go directly to students who now more than ever need gap tuition financing. These are academically high performing students who need financial help. And…
STRIKING HOPPERS CONTINUE THE FIGHT FOR HAZARD PAY
By C.C. Campbell-Rock On his second trip to Memphis to support striking sanitation workers, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. lost his life on the frontlines in the fight for…
Mask Giveaway
Jeff ThomasPublisher — Black Source Media Jeff Thomas Publisher • Opinion Columnist • Licensed General Contractor • Real Estate Appraiser • New Orleans Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black…
That Feeling May Be Your Privilege Cracking
by Rebecca J. Lester Ph.D., MSW, LCSW What COVID can teach us about inequity and compassion. It goes without saying that the last few months have been an incredibly difficult…
Data indicates implicit bias a driver of COVID-19 among African Americans
A Louisiana Weekly Original By Khalil AbdullahContributing Writer (Ethnic Media Services) — Dr. Melva Thompson-Robinson knows the data on the disparate impact of the corona virus and COVID-19 on African…