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Under Attack: A Look at the Assaults and Micro-Aggressions Against Voting Rights Across the Country and in Louisiana
Southern Poverty Law Center Sues JPSO Over Public Records Request Regarding Police Brutality Incident
Let’s Talk About Health With Metropolitan Human Services District
Fighting for Health Equity Year ‘Round: National Minority Health Month
SCLC Wants Biden to Use Executive Order to Restore 1965 Voting Rights Act with Expansions
Our Town | April 2021
BOOK REVIEW Lisa Green-Derry’s “Mostly Sunny, Partly Dramali In Between”
2021 Fair Housing: Restoring HUD Rules and Revenues Nearly $9 Billion Boost in Discretionary Funds to Support CDBG, Homelessness
Progressives Face Uphill Climb in Louisiana Legislature
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House Committee Kills Housing Bill that Would Have Expanded Protections to LGBTQ Community
Bill to Extend Early Voting Pushes through House Committee
City Council Will Resume In-Person Meetings
It’s Time to Wage War Against the Pandemic Called Poverty: Pay Workers What They are Worth, Not What You Can Get Away With
Canal Street Reopens
Dillard University and DePaul Community Health Centers to Host Free Vaccination Events
President Biden Unveils Ambitious ‘American Family Plan’
Department of Justice Announces Investigation into Louisville Police
Let’s Talk About Health
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Let’s Talk About Health is a monthly health segment featuring Dr. Rochelle Head-Dunham, the Executive and Medical Director of Metropolitan Human Services District. In the monthly health talk segment, we will discuss the vaccination stigmas and health disparities in the black community, address issues surrounding mental illness in the black community, and provide access to health resources available to the local community.
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Southern Poverty Law Center sues JPSO for Public Records Related to Police Brutality
The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed suit against the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s office (JPSO), asking a judge to force Sheriff Joseph Lopinto to respond to
U.S. House Prepares Historic Session on Reparations Legislation
The commission’s mission includes identifying the role of federal and state governments in supporting the institution of slavery, forms of discrimination in public and private
We’re Endorsing Troy Carter for Congress and This is Why
With several days remaining in early voting, we want to remind our dedicated readers and followers that their votes count. For nearly 36 years, we
SCLC Wants President Joe Biden to Use Executive Order to Restore the Gutted 1965 Voting Rights Act with Expansion
From the NNPA Newswire The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) called on President Joe Biden to use an executive order to restore Section 4 and
Mayor LaToya Cantrell Creates Office to Focus on Gun Violence Prevention
Mayor LaToya Cantrell recently announced the launch by executive order of the Office of Gun Violence Prevention. “Establishing this office is part of our commitment
Voting Machine Bill Panders to Last Fall’s Unfounded Claims of Voting Security Issues, Advances through Senate
By Sydney McGovernLSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE– A bill to allow legislative oversight in selecting new voting machines advanced through the Senate and
