NEW ORLEANS (CBS News) — Revelers in evening gowns and tuxedoes danced into the wee hours Tuesday at glitzy balls, kicking off the annual Mardi Gras...
by Mason Harrison Special to the NNPA from the Louisiana Weekly Three years after kicking off the much-ballyhooed NOLA for Life murder reduction strategy, Mayor...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Ruby Bridges was 6 years old in 1960 when she became the first black student to attend a...
CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More than nine years after the levees broke during Hurricane Katrina and flooded New Orleans, residents and businesses...
by Sue Sturgis Special to the NNPA from The Louisiana Weekly (Special from Facing South) — When Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast on Aug....
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was sentenced Wednesday to 10 years in prison for bribery, money laundering...
New Orleans’s Recovery School District will close all of its remaining traditional public schools, according to the Washington Post. Education was one of the major reforms...
By Raynard Jackson NNPA Columnist That’s right, Jimmy Graham! Most of the public is only recently becoming aware of the story of Jimmy Graham. I...
[The Examiner] Reverend Fred Leuter, Jr. Pastor of the Franklin Avenue Baptist Church (FABC) in New Orleans is primed to soon become the first African American President of...
