After decades of decline, America’s labor movement appears on the verge of an upswing. Federal workers are being encouraged to join labor unions under new guidelines released today by Vice […]
Category: Social Issues
Golf Tournament To Support Gen. Honore’s Center for Undergraduate Achievement At SUNO
October 20, 2021Editor’s note: The date of the tournament has been corrected to reflect November 12, 2021. Lt. Gen Russell Honore (Ret.) is known for his military prowess, his leadership after Hurricane […]
Many Americans Prefer Better Policing Than Less Policing
October 20, 2021In villages, towns and cities all across the U.S., violent crime is on the rise. While defunding the police became the favored mantra shortly after George Floyd’s death in May, […]
Whistleblowing LSP Trooper Who Fingered Fellow Officers for Coverup of Ronald Greene’s Murder Notified He Faces Termination
October 18, 2021Carl Cavalier, a 33 year- old Black Louisiana State trooper who had the courage to accuse fellow troopers of covering up the murder of 49-year-old Ronald Greene, has been notified […]
Green Infrastructure Projects Underway in New Orleans’ Minority Communities
October 14, 2021A group of Black-led community organizations and Louisiana state officials will break ground later today (Thursday, October 14) on the latest green infrastructure project aimed at combating severe flooding and […]
New Affordable Housing Planned for New Orleans East
October 13, 2021Seven developers – all non-profit, minority or women–owned businesses – will be building new affordable housing units in eastern New Orleans. As part of the Orleans Housing Investment Program (OHIP), […]
City Council Next Step for Phase 3 Psychiatric Jail Facility’s Zoning Change
October 13, 2021Despite an outpouring of pushback from members of OPPRC and many others, the City Council will soon debate a zoning change needed for the $51 million psychiatric and special needs […]
Rise St. James Asks President Biden for Meeting This Week in Washington, D.C.
October 12, 2021Rise St. James President Sharon Lavigne, winner of the 2020 Goldman Prize, recently wrote a poignant letter to President Joe Biden requesting an in-person meeting this week. She talked frankly […]
Criminal Justice Reform Organizations Call for “Care Not Cages” at Jazz Funeral in Opposition of Proposed Psychiatric Jail
October 10, 2021The Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC), and partners, second lined to encourage the City Planning Commission to recommend against building the Phase III Psychiatric Jail. New Orleans, LA, October […]
Opinion: Shots Fired
October 8, 2021Today is the very beginning of the end for the unspeakable, traumatic atrocity that victims and survivors of childhood sex abuse have experienced in the Great state of Louisiana by […]
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