T.J. Smith walked 12 miles to school every day in St. Tammany Parish. And every day, a yellow bus passed him by taking the ...

Wilmer Guevara Brito was in the country on a humanitarian parole program that covered hundreds of thousands of immigrants. But Trump pulled the plug on it last year. And he was picked up during ...

These days, the opposing voices in the sea of noise are usually Democratic, who total only 39 of the 137 members of the Louisiana Legislature.

Potential visitors have to do their own work to find much information about Black history and culture in New Orleans.

A federal appellate court has cleared the way for displays of the Ten Commandments in every Louisiana public school classroom, removing an order that stopped state officials from enforcing a law that ...

The Rev. Jesse L. Jackson, a protege of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and two-time presidential candidate who led the Civil ...

In a ruling last week, a federal magistrate judge said that the central legal questions in state AG’s challenge to the Orleans Parish Sheriff’s immigration policy must be decided by the Louisiana ...

Along the same lines for your library of graphic novels and contemporary Black heroes is “March.” This memoir by Congressman ...

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Norman C. Francis, the former president of Xavier University and New Orleans civil rights leader who died early Wednesday ...

Because of contract disputes, cost and legislative hurdles, it will likely take years before the remainder of the city’s tens of thousands of lead pipes are replaced. In the meantime, experts say ...

The violin, mandolin, guitar, banjo, trumpet, baritone horn, xylophone and trombone — Peter Bocage could play anything. But it was the trumpet that placed him among jazz legends.