Louisiana

June 5, 2022

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
June 2, 2022

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

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June 2, 2022

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

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June 1, 2022

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
May 31, 2022

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

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May 28, 2022

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

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May 27, 2022

Louisiana governor saw Ronald Greene arrest footage before prosecutors

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Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.)
May 23, 2022

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

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May 23, 2022

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

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May 21, 2022

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

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May 16, 2022

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

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May 15, 2022

Mom juggles job, night school to be Dillard valedictorian

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May 13, 2022

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

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May 13, 2022

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

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May 12, 2022

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

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May 11, 2022

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

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May 11, 2022

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

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May 10, 2022

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

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May 6, 2022

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

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May 5, 2022

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

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