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From Desire to Purpose…
Renee Dugue Executive Director, Reborn and Rising I am truly Naturally New Orleans! To know me is to know that The N.O. raised me, The Most High’s grace and mercy saved me, and life in […]
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We Can’t Find a Cure for the Coronavirus Without Ending Homelessness
Andreanecia M. Morris Executive Director, HousingNOLA How can we tell people to stay home, when they don’t have homes? How can we tell people they’re safe today and make no plans for their future? These […]
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Report: Companies Owned by Women of Color Account for 89 Percent of All New Women-Owned Businesses
Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent Crystal Etienne is a businesswoman, wife, and mother of two children. She’s also the founder of Ruby Love, a $10 million personal care company that she built in […]
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For People of Color, Gentrification is More a Curse than a Blessing
Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior Correspondent From a dowdy provincial city in the 1980s, Philadelphia has become a world-class urban center through gentrification – primarily through landmark architecture that now sets the city center, […]
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What Do the 2019 Elections Mean for 2020?
Dr. Julianne Malveaux NNPA Newswire Contributor If the 2019 elections are any indication, Republicans need to worry about their viability come 2020. In Virginia, Democrats have majorities in both its upper and lower houses. With […]
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‘Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools’
Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent Black girls, and other girls of color, experience discriminatory, disparate, punitive, and unfair treatment in school, including suspensions, expulsions, referrals to law enforcement and arrests on school campuses, at […]
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STUDY: Darker-Skinned Blacks more likely to Become Incarcerated
Blue Telusma Writer theGrio.com A new study has confirmed what many have suspected for generations: In this country, the darker your complexion, the more likely you are to end up in prison. According to Quartz, […]
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Congress is Duty-Bound to Investigate Alarming Reports of Trump’s Misconduct
Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League “Any attempt by a President to use the office of the presidency of the United States for personal political gain—rather than the national interest—fundamentally undermines our […]
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What You Know About Dat Black And Gold?
Fleur De Lis Data News Weekly Columnist What’s up Who Dat Nation, this is Fleur De Lis, I am here to discuss all things NOLA. Today of course everyone is talking about our field leader […]
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Attitudes About Gun Safety are Changing, But Senate Leadership is Mired in the Past
Marc H. Morial President and CEO National Urban League The biggest movement and shift that we’ve seen in this culture is simply because of the victims. When victims and survivors are coming to the legislative […]