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New Orleans high school student Dennis Barnes has scored a new national record with his college admissions and scholarship offers.
150 years ago, the Colfax Massacre set the stage for Black voter suppression and 150 years of gun hysteria.
Five Louisiana law enforcement officers pleaded not guilty Tuesday to state crimes in the deadly 2019 arrest of Ronald Greene.
He was a music professor at Southern University of New Orleans, later becoming chairman of the university's Jazz Studies Program.
"This was for the girls that look like me, that’s going to speak up on what they believe in," said…
The effort to recall Democratic New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell has failed, following an official count of petition signatures released by the…
A 1992 federal court agreement that led to a Black justice being elected to Louisiana’s once all-white Supreme Court is…
“A noose is a longstanding symbol of violence associated with the lynching of African Americans,” said an EEOC senior trial…
Federal officials are suing Louisiana chemical maker Denka Tuesday, Feb. 28, 2023, alleging that it presented an unacceptable cancer risk…
Opponents of New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell rushed 10 boxes of petitions into City Hall on Wednesday and declared they…
A white Louisiana police officer was arrested Thursday for fatally shooting an unarmed Black man who was trying to flee…
Family members of Alonzo Bagley, a Black man who was killed as he tried to flee police responding to a disturbance call,…
A settlement has been reached in a lawsuit filed by a Black man who said police officers in a Louisiana…
Louisiana cops will face no charges in the death of Eric Nelson, a Black man left limp and handcuffed on…
Ruby Bridges was the first Black student to attend her Louisiana elementary school more than 60 years ago.
Louisiana authorities’ use of facial recognition technology led to the mistaken identity arrest of a Georgia man on a fugitive…
Washington, a cornerstone of The Big Easy musical nightlife for decades, has died of cancer days after his birthday.
Five Louisiana law enforcement officers were charged Thursday with state crimes ranging from negligent homicide to malfeasance in the deadly…
Judge Dana Douglas has made history as the first Black woman to serve on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of…
The Public Service Commission consists of three Republicans and two Democrats, including Lewis, in a reliably red state.