The Times-Picayune reported yesterday that a third police officer is expected to turn himself in for the killings and cover-up on the Danzig...

Today in St. Joseph, Louisiana, the trial of Waterproof mayor Bobby Higginbotham began. As we reported last week , Tensas Parish Sheriff Ric...

When she was called for jury duty, Veda Manual’s reaction was no different from most citizens. “I knew it would be long,” she said. “No one ...

In the small northeast Louisiana town of Waterproof, the African-American mayor and police chief assert that they have been forced from offi...

This Announcement Comes From Our Friends at the Institute for Women and Ethnic Studies : There are a lot of great youth events this Saturday...

On November 4, 2008, family and friends broke bread at Casa Tracie to watch the election returns and, most importantly, to celebrate Jacob’s...

On Tuesday, March 23, at noon, a coalition of students , staff, faculty, alumni, and friends of the University of New Orleans (UNO) calling...

The Louisiana Department of Commerce and the New Orleans World Trade Center drew protests yesterday for hosting a seminar called "Doing...

The right of New Orleanians to observe and question police behavior is on trial this week. During Mardi Gras 2007, Greg Griffith videotape...

Yesterday, The Office of Disciplinary Counsel (ODC) of the Louisiana Attorney Discipline Board announced that it had completed its investiga...

On Monday, journalist Katy Reckdahl ran a powerful story in the Times-Picayune exposing police harassment of Mardi Gras Indians in Central ...

While most media coverage of New Orleans schools depicts the post-Katrina changes as a success story , community activists continue to rai...

A recent article in the New York Times reports that the approaching rainy season in Haiti is, "The hard deadline against which Haiti’s...

Local music magazine OffBeat has stirred anger and outrage with it's new cover, which features a photo of members of a white rock band ...

It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insur...

As I sit in my apartment in Houston TX . I viewed a New Orleans news channel online and thought, "How pathetic. Will times never change...

Speaking in front of an enraptured audience yesterday at the Carrollton Branch of the New Orleans Public Library, New Orleans civil rights l...