Jemima Joél Brady was looking forward to attending Paul B. Habans Elementary School, the neighborhood school where her older ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

The Ashé Cultural Arts Center held a gathering at Congo Square and led a procession through Tremé Saturday morning (July 5) ...

Alice Craft-Kerney had been working as a nurse at Charity Hospital for over 19 years when Hurricane Katrina hit and disrupted her career.

Prosecutors fighting the release of death row inmate Jimmie Duncan after a judge found him “factually innocent” of raping and ...

Hundreds of people from one of the country’s largest labor unions amassed in New Orleans on Tuesday (July 1) afternoon to ...

Malaco Records, founded in 1962 in Jackson, Miss., needed a hit. Previous recordings had not gained any traction, and money ...

This Saturday (July 5), the Ashé Cultural Arts Center will lead a procession in remembrance of the horrors of the slave trade ...

After bureaucratic issues delayed paychecks for dozens of lifeguards and summer camp counselors in June, the New Orleans ...

Louisiana Sen. Michael Fesi, who introduced Louisiana’s legislation to redefine wetlands, thinks easing wetlands regulation ...

As thousands of architects and planners flocked to New Orleans in 2014 for the world’s largest sustainable design conference, ...

Alexander Dimitry was a man of firsts. He was Louisiana’s first state superintendent of education, the first person of color ...