“We call it the George Floyd Justice in Policing Act, and I call it historic because this is the first time in many years that Congress has taken up a bill dealing with policing and I’m sure it is the first time that Congress has introduced such a bold transformative...
Essence Festival of Culture Goes Virtual
Mayor LaToya Cantrell, PJ Morton, Big Freedia, Irma Thomas, Tank and The Bangas and Big 6 Brass Band will lead a special tribute to the city of New Orleans. Today (Friday, June 19), Essence announced its 2020 Essence Festival of Culture: Unstoppable Virtual Experience. For the first time in the...
Early Voting Begins Saturday, June 20 for Presidential Primary and Municipal Primary
Early voting begins Saturday, June 20 and continue through Saturday, July 4 from 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., daily, excluding Sundays. Registered Democrats and Republicans will be eligible to vote in their party’s Presidential Preference Primary. On the ballot for Presidential Nominee Democratic Candidates are Joseph R. Biden, Tulsi Gabbard,...
Trump’s Executive Order Falls Short, Congressional Black Caucus Says
In a statement released after President Donald Trump signed his executive a Order aimed at police reform, members of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) slammed it for not doing enough to address the counter s and demands of Americans beleaguered by police brutality, over-policy and abuse of power in their...
City Leaders Seem All for Removing Vestiges of White Supremacy; Just Don’t take the Matter into Your Own Hands
Even as they decry the removal and dumping of a statue of slave owner and White supremacist John McDonogh by protesters, members of the New Orleans City Council are set to introduce a motion at their Thursday, June 18 meeting that will establish the City Council Street Renaming Commission, an...
House Judiciary Committee Set to Debate Justice in Policing Act on June 17
The House Judiciary Committee is set to debate, amend and rewrite the Justice in Policing Act at 9 a.m. (CST) Wednesday, June17. The process, called “markup” is the first step in the proposed legislation’s path to be signed into law. It must make it out of committee to be considered by...
Four Shreveport Officers Placed on Leave in the Death of Black Man
Newly released video shows a Black man in Shreveport, Tommie Dale McGlothen, Jr., 44, who died in police custody on April 6, being brutally beaten and tased before his death. The video, on KSLA, is shot of a cellphone from a witness. McGlothen is seen being assaulted by a White...
Police Violence Victims Will be Honored Sunday at Prayer Vigil in Congo Square
Local faith and community leaders will host aDay of Mourning Interfaith Memorial Prayer Vigil for those lost through police violence at from 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. Sunday, June 14 at Congo Square. “We are asking that faith leaders from all faith traditions come and give a brief prayer. We...
ULM Fires Professors Caught Posting Racist Comments
University of Louisiana at Monroe (ULM) has moved to terminate its second instructor within a week for use of racist slurs. On a social media account, assistant nursing professor, Mary Holmes, wrote “Thank God for our President. He takes no salary for his loyal commitment. Not like the monkey before...
Council President Jason Williams Proposes a Citizen Advisory Committee to Look at City’s Funding of Criminal Justice System
Declaring that “systemic reforms or necessary to decrease the opportunities of police violence against people of color”, New Orleans City Council President Jason Williams announced his proposal to form a new citizen advisory committee charged with examining the allocation of City resources across the local justice system. “People have been...