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Disaster Housing Assistance Program-Ike is extended
On February 4, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Shaun Donovan and Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate announced an extension to the Disaster Housing Assistance Program-Ike (DHAP-Ike), giving approximately 11,000 families who were displaced by Hurricanes Ike and Gustav more time to transition to longer-term housing solutions. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 12:21 pm |
Increasing number of South La. residents seek emergency food assistance
A study released last week by Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana (GNOA) and Feeding America, the nation's largest domestic hunger-relief organization, reports that more than 262,800 people, including 82,000 children and 40,000 seniors, receive emergency food assistance each year through Second Harvest Food Bank and its 235 faith-based and nonprofit member agencies. Second Harvest Food Bank reaches approximately one half of the population in poverty in the 23 south Louisiana parishes it serves, stretching from the Mississippi border to the Texas state line. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 12:21 pm |
At NNPA Conference: N.C. AT&T president tells plans to impact Black America
CHARLOTTE (NNPA) — Amidst an economic crisis that has placed the spotlight once again on economic injustice and disparities in the Black community, AT&T North Carolina President Cynthia Marshall laid out for America’s Black newspaper publishers what her company is doing to spur progress in the Black community. Read More ...
Pharoh Martin, NNPA National Correspondent - Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 12:51 pm |
S&WB agrees to reinstate its comprehensive program
The Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans has agreed to reinstate its comprehensive program – stalled for several years in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina — to make extensive improvements to reduce or eliminate sewage overflows into the Mississippi River, Lake Pontchartrain and its storm drainage canal system, the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced January 27. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 12:51 pm |
Clean energy offers opportunities for African Americans
Is there anything more important than reducing the federal deficit? Yes, it's creating well-paying jobs in major industries to lift the United States out of the greatest economic collapse since the Great Depression. Read More ...
Emmanuel K. Glakpe, NNPA Guest Commentary - Posted: Monday, January 18, 2010 10:43 am |
S.U. Law Center Journal Symposium set for February 19
The Southern University Law Center’s Journal of Race, Gender, and Poverty will host a one-day symposium, “State of the Union: The Progress Report," from 9:00 a.m. — 4 p.m. Friday, February 19, 2010, in 120 and 130 A.A. Lenoir Hall. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 12:21 pm |
More Black females enrolled in college than Black males
(Taylor Media Services) — On most of the nation’s college campuses, the number of African American females out-numbers African American males by nearly two-to-one. However, according to a report released last week by the American Council on Education, the gender gap for Blacks and whites appears to be stabilizing with a slight increase in the number of males enrolling in college. Read More ...
Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 12:51 pm |
More minorities for medical school
RICHMOND (Special to the NNPA from the Richmond Free Press) — Official segregation has ended, but Dr. Louis W. Sullivan is concerned that the legacy of vicious racism continues to afflict health care. Read More ...
Jeremy M. Lazarus, Contributing Writer - Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 12:51 pm |
Ed Perkins – Jumpin’ and jazzin’ at the Lundi Gras Festival
Before the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club inaugurated its Lundi Gras Festival back in 1992, the Monday prior to Carnival Day was pretty dull. Folks from out of town walked rather aimlessly around the French Quarter drinking and begging for beads from those on balconies. Read More ...
Geraldine Wyckoff, Contributing Writer - Posted: Monday, February 8, 2010 12:21 pm |
Thelonious Monk Institute – A snapshot of the ‘new edition’
This fall, a new group of six selected students began their studies at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz under the artistic direction of noted trumpeter Terence Blanchard. At a recent performance at Snug Harbor, where the ensemble will be performing regularly on Tuesday nights, the students demonstrated why they were chosen to participate in the prestigious program that is housed at Loyola University. Read More ...
Geraldine Wyckoff, Contributing Writer - Posted: Monday, February 1, 2010 12:51 pm |
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