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...
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was convicted Wednesday on charges that he accepted bribes, free trips and...
KEVIN McGILL, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A jury deliberated the corruption case against former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, the city’s chief executive when...
NEW ORLEANS – Clad in an orange prison jumpsuit, a former investment banker now serving prison time for a fraud scheme in New Jersey testified that he helped...
[NBC News] NEW ORLEANS — Jury selection started on Monday in the public corruption trial of former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who led the city during...
by MICHAEL KUNZELMAN, Associated Press NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin asked a federal judge Wednesday to throw out his indictment on...
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...
Native Son Brings Convention Home By Mason Harrison Contributing Writer Marc Morial Marc Morial rode into office nearly 20 years ago as mayor of New Orleans...
[ABC News] Cuba Gooding, Jr. no longer has a warrant out for his arrest, but New Orleans police department spokesperson Frank Roberson told ABC News the...
[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...
