Senate Bill to Abolish HEAL GETS NEW LIFE By C.C. Campbell-Rock The Baton Rouge and New Orleans NAACP along with Justice and Beyond, a New Orleans coalition of civil…
YAKA MEIN and A TALE OF TWO CHINA TOWNS
Yaka Mein, Ya-ka-mein, Yakamein, Yakamee, Yaka Meat and Old Sober are all different expressions of the same dish. Many claim it has mystical healing powers such that it can cure a hangover with a single…
Misleading Signs Cause Confusion
By Jeff Thomas Is the city of New Orleans deliberately trying to trick drivers into getting tickets? Is so much of the budget dependent upon the city collecting traffic…
How Stopping Car Booting Can Make Landrieu a Presidential Contender
By Jeff Thomas The progressive and inspirational act of removing the Confederate monuments that littered the New Orleans skyline is in danger of turning into a hollow act of triviality. …
Race-Related Trauma Disrupts Psychological Well-Being
How race-related trauma in school disrupts the psychological well-being of youth Any form of alienation, discrimination, and violence inflicted on an individual due to their race is wrong. So, what…
Do We Feel Like We Feel For Real
By Lloyd Dennis I am now convinced that most of our humanity has become distorted, that our perceptions, opinions, emotional reactions are no longer formed by our real realities as…
Colin Kaepernick is just like Muhammed Ali.
By Jeff Thomas Recently Muhammed Ali’s death transfixed the nation. Headlines everywhere praised the former heavyweight champion as “the Greatest”. Ali transcended race was the most popular refrain. But during…
HEAL Abolition Stalls
By Pat Bryant A proposed law by powerful Senator Karen Carter Peterson was deferred last week after a core of civil rights and women leaders fought back, and the New…
Confederates and Cannizzaro
Kenneth Cooper When the crane came, Beauregard’s horse wondered, “what do I have to do with all this?” Two straps were placed around his torso, the horse’s not Beauregard’s, and…
Vulnerable Residents Deprived of Food Source
Second Harvest of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana’s use of food for political leverage, to control residents in our communities and the agencies which provide direct service to hungry families,…