Will the U.S. Senate act swiftly on the new legislative plan? As the nation’s Center for Disease Control (CDC) tracks the spread of COVID-19, by mid-May, at least 1.6 million infections and over 92,000 deaths occurred. This data includes all 50 states, the District of Columbia and the territories of Guam, the Northern...
Tourism Leader Stephen Perry Is Out of Touch and Out of Line
New Orleans & Company CEO Stephen Perry must be the most egotistical and out-of-touch non-profit leader in the city’s history. Here at The New Orleans Tribune, we feel pretty confident in making that assessment as messages Perry sent to members of Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s reveal the unreasonable and unrealistic position...
Congratulations, Ray Nagin!
We were happy to learn that Ray Nagin, former mayor of Orleans, had been released from federal prison and is now reunited with his family in Texas. The New Orleans Tribune wrote about the federal investigation and prosecution of Nagin during the trial. And we had our opinions. We were never...
WHILE WE ARE QUARANTINING . . .
THE EXHIBITION HALL AUTHORITY WAS CHOOSING FINALISTS FOR ITS $557 MILLION HOTEL PROJECT The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Exhibition Hall Authority, the governing body of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, announced on Monday (April 21) that he had received proposals from master development teams to develop 39-acres...
Mayor Cantrell Does Not Need Permission or Approval to do What’s Best for New Orleans
The President of the Jefferson Chamber of Commerce Todd Murphy must have fallen and bumped his head before he decided it was a good idea to write New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell a letter, chiding her for not talking to folk around the region before she voiced her opinion last...
A New Orleans Tribune Editorial: It’s Time for the Democrats to Come to the Table
"Socialism" Be Damned: A Progressive Platform Is Needed for the DNC to Get the Support it Needs from Black Americans, Other Marginalized Communities Since Sen. Bernie Sanders announced the suspension of his campaign, we have heard incessantly that it is time for his supporters to suck it up and get...
400 Years is Not A Trend: COVID-19 Exposes The Impact of Institutional Racism in America
When Gov. John Bel Edwards announced during his daily COVID-19 press conference on Monday that a disturbing trend had emerged, his statement on the subject was so brief that we weren’t sure everyone had heard it. By now, you know what he shared: African Americans, who comprise only 32 percent...
Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts: UNO’s Privateer Pledge Sounds Better than it Really Is, Especially for the City’s Poorest Students
“Beware of Greeks bearing gifts” is an axiom that references the dirty trick pulled on the city of Troy by the Greeks, who were their war-time adversary in ancient times. Real quick, the Greeks carved a giant wooden horse as a gift to the people of Troy, who brought it...
SOS Black Property Owners, This Message is for You: Hang on to What We’ve Got!
We, at The New Orleans Tribune, have watched for years—especially in the wake of Katrina—as historically Black neighborhoods across the city were eyed and taken over by gentrifiers. But we were more than a bit shocked to see the insidious call printed under the guise of a seemingly benign real...
Without Clear Commitment to DBE Inclusion from the Start, Convention Center Project Should Remain Stalled
The failure of staff at the city’s convention center to require minority business participation in the bid for a master architect to oversee the center’s multi-million-dollar facelift is grinding the bid process to a halt and causing strife among several board members. In December, the board of the Ernest N....