Chokwe Lumumba, a leader of the Republic of New Afrika and recently elected mayor of Jackson, Mississippi, has died . Mayor Lumumba wa...

Every day New Orleans is faced with crime , racist activity and the never-ending  gentrification debate . But there is something about ...

Activists from American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) in Florida have alerted us to this story: A young woman named Jenny Aguilar i...

In one of the largest protests seen in New Orleans in the past decade, hundreds of musicians, club owners, and other supporters of live m...

This call to action comes from the  Friends and Family of Manuel Brown Manuel Brown is facing twenty years to life on a marijuana drug ...

(A version of this article originally appeared in the  New Orleans Data News  Newspaper) We live in the era of Hollywood mega-budget ...

From our friends at Women With A Vision . Today, all of us at WWAV celebrate a huge victory not only for those who have been criminaliz...

A shorter version of this article originally appeared on the  Al Jazeera America website . The modern gay rights movement was born on ...

From the Angola 3 Newsletter . This morning we lost without a doubt the biggest, bravest, and brashest personality in the political pri...

While Colorado and Washington have de-criminalized recreational use of marijuana and twenty states allow use for medical purposes , ...

The Times-Picayune/nola.com’s six articles and one video (and counting) about Tulane Avenue, dubbed “ Uneasy Street ,” are an unfortunate ...

Packed into the small reception area of the Florida Governor’s office in Tallahassee, a couple dozen determined Dream Defenders conducte...