From a press release The City of New Orleans approved a multi-year Cooperative Endeavor Agreement (CEA) for $1.1 million with YouthForce NOLA to place 925 New Orleans’ students into paid internships through 2020. Scaled over a three-year period, the CEA will support up to 275 interns in 2018, 325 interns...
“Solidarity with Charlottesville” Rally & March in Congo Square This Saturday
By Morgan Lawrence Take 'Em Down NOLA, the community organization that pushed for the removal of four confederate monuments in New Orleans, and members of New Orleans Peoples Assembly organization addressed the press today (Thursday, Aug. 17) at the steps of City Hall, to draw attention to growing the White...
Roll With RTA this Essence Fest and Independence Day Weekend
[contentblock id=1 img=gcb.png] RTA encourages riders to celebrate Essence Fest and Independence Day responsibly and let RTA’s public transportation take you to and from the events scheduled this weekend. Many of RTA’s bus and streetcar routes provide easy, especially with the #16, 84, 28 buses and Rampart/St.Claude streetcar providing direct...
Play for Purpose: The Robert Pack Foundations
[contentblock id=1 img=gcb.png] By Morgan Lawrence Born and raised in the Lower Ninth Ward, former NBA player and assistant coach for the New Orleans Pelicans, Robert Pack, used his talent in basketball and his time as a mentor to train young boys to dream of success through his foundations, Team...
And Another Thing with Anitra: Geaux Blue or Just Geaux?
[contentblock id=1 img=gcb.png] The first place I saw mention of it was a bottom, front-page ad in the Times-Picayune recent Sunday edition, which could have only been thrown at my front door as part of a promotion to get me to renew my subscription of the thrice-weekly print version of...
