Tonight, the Loyola University Institute of Politics (IOP) will be hosting a closed session on the subject "Black Politics in New Orle...

From June 22 - 26, 2010, tens of thousands of social justice activists from across the US will converge on Detroit, Michigan for the US Soci...

The new issue of the Gambit Weekly announces that they have named Jim Letten as New Orleanian of the year. While civil rights leaders have...

For three years I have been in this group and we do what we like to do best, PLAY. We are Creative Forces (or “CF” for short), and we are te...

The New Orleans Municipal Primary Election is scheduled for February 6, 2010. This Wednesday, January 6, is the last day to register to vo...

Deanne Patricia DePass-Feaster, native of Kingston, Jamaica and resident of New Orleans, passed on Wednesday, December 23, 2009 in New Orlea...

The Louisiana Justice Institute has sent a letter of complaint to alert the U.S. Justice Department to a violation of the Voting Rights Act ...

Althea Francois, a life-long activist for peace and social justice, passed away on December 25th at the age of 60. Althea spent her life ac...

Last week I watched with interest, and then just disgust, as a 'masker' (don't get me started) complained to a WDSU news reporte...

A new report from Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center highlights the continuing issues that affordable housing tenants are faci...

The Times-Picayune, working with ProPublica and Frontline , have been running a powerful , devastating, series of articles this week . The...

The Mayoral race is on. Some have asked : if the Saints are in the Superbowl, will anyone come to the election? Either way, let's get th...

On Wednesday, December 16, a new organization called Healthcare Now! New Orleans will hold an action to commemorate the 45,000 people who ...

On December 11, 2009, a federal judge ruled that Congress had unconstitutionally cut off all federal funds to ACORN. The judge issued an in...

The Color Purple, a Tony Award-nominated Broadway production presented by Oprah Winfrey, opens tonight in New Orleans. Producers have taken ...

Below, an update written by our friends at Survivors Village , near the former St Bernard Development: One of the major goals of Survivors V...

An article in today's Times-Picayune notes that Louisiana's Road Home program paid owners of 41 properties at least $3.2 million to...

I have a confession to make. For years, I’ve suffered from potty-mouth. It’s the halitosis of expletives, and very unattractive. So last wee...

Today is a good day to stand up for worker justice. New Orleans' Congress of Day Laborers ( Congreso de Jornaleros ) has been organizin...

For the past several years , the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana has been waging a campaign to close the Youth Study Center , a noto...