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Electrocution proposed as death penalty option in La. where electric chair is known as ‘Gruesome Gertie’

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Rev. Charles Southall III, New Orleans

New Orleans minister admits stealing almost $900K from his church, parishioners

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Mystikal arrested after accusations of rape following financial dispute

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The lawsuit against DeRay Mckesson would have a chilling effect on the right to protest

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Nevaeh Allen thegrio.com

Body of missing Baton Rouge child, 2, found; stepfather arrested

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Louisiana nurse’s at-home vaccination campaign leads to statewide initiative

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U.S. President Joe Biden and Attorney General Merrick Garland

Black policy advocates played role in Biden’s gun crime prevention plan

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Ja’Tyri Unique Brown thegrio.com

3 arrested after toddler, 2 others killed at Louisiana pool party

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La. GOP leader: How do you know slavery was bad if no one around to see it?

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Boyfriend accused of killing woman in front of her sleeping 5-year-old daughter

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Louisiana Baton Rouge thegrio.com

Louisiana officer shown using chokehold on 13-year-old during arrest

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Florida trans woman killed in ‘vicious and violent attack’

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Baton Rouge Council offers Alton Sterling’s family $4.5 million settlement

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Louisiana doctor Shane McKinney www.theGrio.com

Louisiana doctor arrested for racist attack against Southern University student

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Koy Moore thegrio.com

3 officers on leave after LSU football player says he was ‘violated’ during search

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Louisiana man Fair Wayne Bryant thegrio.com

Black man sentenced to life for stealing hedge clippers released after 24 years

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Baton Rouge activist blasts white school board member: ‘You don’t give a damn!’

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Police investigate death of beloved African American museum founder found dead in car trunk

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Baton Rouge police department finds itself explaining its own blackface controversy

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Southern University get $7 million in grants to develop medical marijuana program

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