Hosted a Town Hall on WBOK
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An open discussion about how Black men and the media intersect. Hear panelists discuss the history of NABJ, their newsrooms, reporting while black, personal stories, and a look to the future. Click the links below to hear their thoughts.
The discussion is broken into two 30 minute segments
Part 1
Part 2
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Jeff Thomas
Publisher • Opinion Columnist • New Orleans
Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black Source Media and one of New Orleans’ most direct voices on civic affairs, economic justice, and Louisiana politics. He writes from the intersection of experience and accountability — as a licensed general contractor,a tech company founder and executive with over 30 years experience, and a businessman who has worked across the city’s civic, media, and construction ecosystems for decades.
His Sunday column covers Louisiana legislative politics, insurance discrimination, housing policy, and the forces shaping Black community life in New Orleans and across the state. Thomas writes in the tradition of Black journalists who hold power accountable without apology — building arguments from data, delivering verdicts from evidence, and speaking to Black New Orleans with the directness the moment demands.
He is also the principal of EA Inspection Services, LLC, a government inspection services company. Black Source Media is his platform for the civic conversation New Orleans has needed and too rarely had.
Selected Articles by Jeff Thomas
Black Neighborhoods Pay the Highest Insurance Rates in Louisiana. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
They Didn’t Yell the N-Word. They Went to Law School, Bided Their Time, and Rewrote the Constitution Instead.
Vappie vs. Morrell: Why Does Justice Look Different in New Orleans?
The State Has the Money. New Orleans East Just Needs Them to Use It.
The Failure of Mitch Landrieu
Publisher — Black Source Media
Jeff Thomas
Publisher • Opinion Columnist • New Orleans
Jeff Thomas is the publisher of Black Source Media and one of New Orleans’ most direct voices on civic affairs, economic justice, and Louisiana politics. He writes from the intersection of experience and accountability — as a licensed general contractor,a tech company founder and executive with over 30 years experience, and a businessman who has worked across the city’s civic, media, and construction ecosystems for decades.
His Sunday column covers Louisiana legislative politics, insurance discrimination, housing policy, and the forces shaping Black community life in New Orleans and across the state. Thomas writes in the tradition of Black journalists who hold power accountable without apology — building arguments from data, delivering verdicts from evidence, and speaking to Black New Orleans with the directness the moment demands.
He is also the principal of EA Inspection Services, LLC, a government inspection services company. Black Source Media is his platform for the civic conversation New Orleans has needed and too rarely had.
Selected Articles by Jeff Thomas
Black Neighborhoods Pay the Highest Insurance Rates in Louisiana. Here’s What They Don’t Want You to Know.
They Didn’t Yell the N-Word. They Went to Law School, Bided Their Time, and Rewrote the Constitution Instead.
Vappie vs. Morrell: Why Does Justice Look Different in New Orleans?
The State Has the Money. New Orleans East Just Needs Them to Use It.
The Failure of Mitch Landrieu
FYI/ A Friend in Paris asked?…
LBRC- Just got a Call from a Friend in Paris, France, who asked?- “I just saw a clip about John in New York from New Orleans, who is protesting in front of thousands of marchers with his “Musical” instrument in hand, and he told others to bring theirs! Why is encouraging a 2nd Line, when these issues you face in America are so serious”? We answered-
1. It’s only when you hear the beat of The Bass Drum, ‘Dat you know things have gotten serious, “Party or otherwise”! What is more serious than a “Death Procession” aka NOLA 2nd Line Tradition, after a Funeral especially (The Death of Racism is as Serious an issue as well)!
2. NOLA and even “1/2 NOLA” will travel, plus? You can take a NOLA New Orleanian out of New Orleans, but you just can’t take The New Orleans out of a “Real” New Orleanian! (Disclaimer: Not all so- called “Real” New Orleanians were born there)!
3. Finally? “It’s just the way we “Roll” out for battle!!!
Peace Out and 2nd ‘Dat Line and Emotion in NOLA and all over ‘Da World…
in the Bible, GOD, declares, when people follow the ways on men to solve their problems, thus, those men deny His Wisdom and Solutions, and the end result is a world filled with chaos and Hostility, God proclaims, In the Emnity of the people thus will I turn them over to a “reprobate mind”, so that, they will believe Lies, and then Incrementlly seek to destroy my people and me, and become Beguiled where no one can get them to acknowledge the Truth. A reprobate, is a suicide mind.
please do not miss out on this civil rights man speak to the people.
Civil Rights Leader Shelby Steele to America:
https://video.foxnews.com/v/6162276226001#sp=show-clips
eye opener ! sunday 2020 07 June
God,,, “please woke the people” !