The South Louisiana ICE Processing Center was the second stop of the day. Earlier, the group visited the Central Louisiana ICE Processing Center, in Jena, where Mahmoud Khalil, a Syrian-born ...

Unionized nurses at University Medical Center announced Monday (April 21) that they will hold a one-day strike on May 1, timed to coincide with international labor holiday May Day and a busy Jazz Fest ...

Slavery and the Making of Mass Incarceration in New Orleans, 1803-1930" offers a reality check, writes Fatima Shaik.

BP paid billions of dollars in damages over the Deepwater Horizon spill. Yet those who say they've suffered health problems ...

Uncle Tiff,” a sculpture by Eugene Warburg, might be the first Black “sculptural subject” created by a Black artist, ...

The federal government has terminated two grants for African American history and culture awarded to the Whitney Plantation, ...

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The Tulane-led study found people of color in Louisiana were underrepresented in high- and low-paying jobs at chemical plants ...

Top officials in the Cantrell administration have claimed for months that the city is headed toward a fiscal crisis. But new ...

Last year, a man had a cardiac arrest toward the end of the Crescent City Classic. Local health care workers saved his life.

The suit claims St. James Parish discriminates against majority-Black districts by approving most toxic chemical plants in ...

The Louisiana Public Service Commission voted to nix the program to lower energy consumption and save customers money.