Louisiana

La. Senate approves cutting Confederate Memorial Day and Robert E. Lee Day from state’s holiday list

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banning Black literature, theGrio.com

Pride Month, Black History book displays banned in public library. Director wants to avoid conflict, he says

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La. governor agrees to testify in investigation of alleged cover-up in death of Ronald Greene

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New law would allow 100% interest on payday loans; Louisiana governor vetoes what critics call a trap

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La. Gov. John Bel Edwards, theGrio.com

Governor expected to sign bill that releases some ’10/6 lifers’ who had received life sentences

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Louisiana’s 1st John Robert Lewis Scholar from Ringgold, LSU

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Louisiana governor saw Ronald Greene arrest footage before prosecutors

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)

Sen. Bill Cassidy proves America doesn’t care about Black women

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Rep. Watson Coleman says Sen. Cassidy’s Black maternal mortality comment ‘rooted in white supremacy’

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LA Senator Cassidy says maternal mortality rate isn’t that bad if you discount Black women

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Dr. Kiki Baker Barnes leaves Dillard to become first Black woman commissioner of Gulf Coast Athletic Conference

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Mom juggles job, night school to be Dillard valedictorian

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Louisiana deputies placed 10-year-old with disabilities in a chokehold, lawsuit alleges 

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Living in homes built atop a toxic dump, sick residents fight for relocation help from EPA 

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Troopers accused of lifting a man by his braids and beating him charged with misdemeanor

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A Jim Crow-era law allowed split-jury convictions. Judges weigh should affected inmates remain imprisoned

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Three years later, say ‘Ronald Greene,’ and many think ‘cover-up.’ Nobody thinks ‘justice.’

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Louisiana lawmakers shut down bill banning hair discrimination immediately, bill almost passed last year

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After Ronald Greene’s beating death, police journal entry read: “Realize there is a problem”

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Xavier using $2.5M grant to convert dorm that housed Freedom Riders into STEM center 

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