Pontchartrain Conservancy and NOLA Ready will host Storm Aware & Prepare from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Saturday, May 28, at Pontchartrain Conservancy’s New Canal Lighthouse, 8001 Lakeshore Dr., where residents can get free hurricane preparedness supplies, including food kits, solar lights and more. Organizers will also be on hand, providing information and...
0
Alden McDonald Received ACG Lifetime Achievement Award
Founding President of Liberty Bank is the first African American to receive the award Alden McDonald was recently honored by the Louisiana chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth with its Lifetime Achievement Award at the organization's history-making ceremony on May 12 as McDonald became the first African American to...
0
MLK Students Complete Criminal Justice Academy
Students at the Criminal Justice Academy at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. High School were honored Tuesday (May 17) for their completion of the program. Earlier this year, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. High School launched a first of its kind Criminal Justice Academy to educate students about the criminal...
0
State House Committee Advances Bill to Ban Hair Discrimination
By Piper HutchinsonLSU Manship School News Service BATON ROUGE--The Louisiana House Committee on Civil Law and Procedure advanced a bill Monday (May 16) that would prohibit discrimination based on certain hairstyles. State Rep. Candace Newell (D-New Orleans) introduced bill to ban discrimination based on hairstyles House Bill 41, sponsored by...
0
Officials Release Names of those Killed in Racist Buffalo Massacre
Avowed white racist Payton Gendron allegedly put together a 180-page manifesto that revealed his hatred for Black and Jewish people and the “replacement theory” ideology that Fox News often speaks of, notably hosts Tucker Carlson and Laura Ingraham. By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia The victims of...
0
RTA Holding Second Round of Public Meetings
The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority announced the agency will host a second round of public informational meetings for its Bus Rapid Transit Study project. Three virtual, one–hour meetings will be held via Zoom at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 21; at 6 p.m. Tuesday, May 24, and at noon Wednesday,...
0
Local High School Holds Community Clean-Up Day
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Charter School recently held “Let’s Give Back, NOLA,” a community clean up day, on May 14. This initiative brought residents and partners together to improve public spaces by removing litter and unsightly objects. Participants took pride in their hard work and commitment to the contribution...
Karine Jean-Pierre Selected as First Black Woman White House Press Secretary
By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent@StacyBrownMedia Karine Jean-Pierre, whose long career in Democratic communications led her to the podium last year as the second Black woman to hold a White House daily briefing, will regularly host those news conferences. On Thursday, May 5, President Joe Biden announced...
Somebody Has to Say It: City Council Push to Change Charter is Misguided Subterfuge
Members of the New Orleans City Council pushed forward with their plan to put a home rule charter change on an upcoming ballot that, should it be approved by the voters, require mayoral appointments to be approved by the City Council. We hoped this proposal would not even make it...
Community Gathers as Ribbon is Cut on The Tate Etienne Prevost Center
On Nov. 14, 1960, Tessie Prevost's mother Dorothy Prevost stayed at home and watched local broadcast news accounts of her daughter and three other six-year old Black girls desegregating two local public schools that day, she says. Her husband accompanied their daughter, along with U.S. Marshalls, to school, instead. From...
