By Julianne Malveaux The June Employment Situation report, released on July 2, showed a continued decline in the unemployment rate. Thanks to coronavirus, the rate shot up to 14.7 percent in April and declined to 11.1 percent in June. About 4.8 million more people were on payrolls in June than...
Rupture, Reckoning, & Reset: The New Call to Action
By JB Borders I haven’t commented publicly about economic, political or many cultural affairs since Barack Obama’s election in 2008. That event was such an unexpected, historic surprise; a moment-hopping harbinger of what could have become a more mature approach to race relations and power-sharing in this country. It would...
COVID-19 Has Devastated The Black Community — Here’s Why And What Needs To Change
By Akilah A. Jefferson Shah, M.D., MScThis article originally appeared in Huff Post I am Black. I am a woman. I am a physician. My education took me from public schools in New Orleans, Louisiana, to the Ivy League halls of Brown University. I returned to post-Katrina New Orleans for...
The Black Church Faces An Atypical Crisis
Lisa Olivia Fitch, Editor in Chief, Our Weekly News If a Tsunami happens on the other side of the world, some may be unaware and unaffected. Others may hear the news and be aware of the disaster, but still be unaffected. Still others may be aware and only inconvenienced by...
Old, Sick and Incarcerated
By Julianne MalveauxThere were 4623 incarcerated people over 65 in federal prisons during the first week of May. Until May 12, Paul Manafort, Mr. Trump's one-time campaign manager, was one of them. The 71-year-old petitioned the court for release to home confinement because of his age, heart condition, and "fear...
In America the Choice – Death, Coronavirus or the Economy
By Roger Caldwell, NNPA Newswire Contributor Under the direction and management of President Donald Trump and his coronavirus pandemic task force, there has been mass death. With over 83,000 deaths, and over 1.4 million cases of the virus, there are still no masks, limited ventilators, limited gowns, limited tests-kits and...
Stop Excluding People of Color in Environmental Policies
By Dr. Benjamin F. Chavis, Jr., President and CEONational Newspaper Publishers Association The deadly destruction wrought by the coronavirus pandemic has laid bare the harsh inequities in American society, disproportionately ravaging Black America and other communities of color, as well as individuals who were on the social margins long before...
As Trump Approvals Sink During COVID-19 Crisis Democrats Look to Take the U.S. Senate
Lauren Victoria BurkeNNPA Newswire Contributor As the coronavirus devastates the economy, businesses lose millions, prompting over 25 million Americans to file for unemployment. The Republican Party, now controlling the White House and the U.S. Senate, is in danger of losing control of it all. The first shot across the Republican...
Fighting to Re-Open Louisiana too Soon is Callous and Beyond Stupid
This is going to be a brief one, guys. There's just not much we can say because two things are clear. You can't fix stupid. And you can't fix callous, either. We must go record with the fact that we fully support Gov. John Bel Edwards' extension of the state's...
What Do We Have To Lose? Your Health or Your Job?
By Julianne Malveaux A little less than four years ago, the president tried to get Black votes with the question, "What do you have to lose." The coronavirus offers a bleak answer. Trump was notified of the danger of the pandemic in January, but didn't begin to address the issue...