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We cannot drift away from Dr. King’s legacy
By David W. Marshall TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As we enter 2026, Americans of all walks of life are witnessing the continuing political and cultural shifts in
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Will the city’s settlement stem the tide for OPSB?
Orleans Parish School Board members are surely relieved. A $20 million settlement from a 2019 lawsuit against the City of New Orleans in which OPSB
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By David L. Horne Guest Columnist The regular celebration of MLK Day in the U.S. was not only marred a bit this year by youth-led violence in several cities but it was ... Filming ICE is legal but exposes you to digital tracking
By Nicole M. Bennett TheConversation.com Columnist When an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Nicole Good in south Minneapolis on Jan. 7, 2026, what happened next looked familiar, at least on the ... 12 ways the Trump Admin. dismantled civil rights law
By Spencer Overton TheConversation.com columnist One year after Donald Trump’s second inauguration, a pattern emerges. Across dozens of executive orders, agency memos, funding decisions and enforcement changes, the administration has weakened federal ... We cannot drift away from Dr. King’s legacy
By David W. Marshall TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As we enter 2026, Americans of all walks of life are witnessing the continuing political and cultural shifts in our nation. While these shifts began long ... New mayor, new leadership, new hope
The inauguration of the 63rd mayor of New Orleans and newly elected City Council was held last week at the Saenger Theatre before a crowd of 2500. Louisiana’s children cannot afford this population decline
Louisiana has become one of the nation’s primary exit states. I’m not surprised. I returned home a decade ago to teach, determined to invest in my community. Today, many of ... We must finish the work Dr. King died doing
By Ben JealousTriceEdneyWire.com Columnist To honor Martin Luther King Jr. honestly is to remember that he was organizing to make the dream real – and to decide whether we are willing to ... Trump’s condemnation of Affirmative Action as Reverse Discrimination”
Twenty-three years ago, just as Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (a Republican appointee) cast the deciding vote to keep affirmative action legal in college admissions, she speculated that it ...
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