For most families, the pursuit of higher education means substantial investments in time, effort, and a combination of cash and loans to gain a college degree. These investments – both human and ...

(Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper) – A recent study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute found people with HIV develop cancer at higher rates than would be ...

President Donald Trump has a knack for diverting attention from his failures, often using race as the vehicle. So when Sen. John McCain came out against the cruel Graham-Cassidy Republican health care ...

The cops who ganged up on Eric Garner, got him into a chokehold, and mashed his face into the sidewalk didn’t intend to kill him. They intended only to show him who’s boss on the streets of Staten ...

The popular saying-‘There’s an app for that’ now holds true for 2013 Essence Festival goers, thanks to the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation (NOTMC). NOTMC has teamed up with Essence Fest to ...

Two Republican state representatives have been eyeing one another across the floor of the House throughout this legislative session, Representatives Julie Stokes and John Schroder. And both ...

Citing “false representations and concealments… made with the intent to deceive Louisiana consumers,” petitioners filed this month a class-action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry calling ...

Last week, as Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., convened a House Financial Services Committee hearing, featuring the CEOs of Wall Street’s biggest banks, the financial watchdog group Better Markets ...

For someone who sold himself to the public as the great deal-maker (i.e., “The Art of the Deal”) Donald Trump has made a mess of negotiations with Congress over the federal budget and his own demand ...

Alabama – led by utterly clueless male legislators – just passed the most restrictive ban on abortion in the country, with Georgia and Missouri piling on. Other states dominated by right-wing ...

Louisiana has a choice. We can elect a Governor who brings us honor, or one that carries with him national contempt upon assuming our top office. The people of Greater New Orleans have a choice. We ...

It’s been said often that we should all be very careful about what we wish for. I thought about that after seeing the television commercial for the film “Gods of Egypt,” which tells that story of the ...