[caption id="attachment_26586" align="aligncenter" width="600"] Photo courtesy of Market Umbrella/Crescent City Farmers Market[/caption] By Kaelin Maloid Contributing Writer In a city where cuisine is king and supporting local communities and businesses is a way ... Lawyer says Orleans D.A. used a fake subpoena to pressure teenage victim
By Charles Maldonado The Lens The Lens has uncovered two more cases in which the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s office appears to have given witnesses fake subpoenas — legally worthless documents apparently ... Failing charter schools have a reincarnation plan
By Annie Waldman ProPublica This past June, Florida’s top education agency delivered a failing grade to the Orange Park Performing Arts Academy in suburban Jacksonville for the second year in a ... Work on catch basins hits major snag
As the City of New Orleans continues to get its pumps working to full capacity, repair all of its turbines that fuel the pumps and clear out the city’s catch ... B.R. man charged in racially motivated killings
A law enforcement officer told The Associated Press Tuesday that authorities found a copy of a speech by Nazi leader Adolf Hitler in the home of a white man accused ... N.O.’s Inspector General announces retirement
Just weeks after announcing that he will oversee the repair of the city’s catch basins in the wake of two floods this summer, New Orleans Inspector General Ed Quatrevaux ... Balancing mobility and fear of falls in seniors
By Lisa Esposito Contributing Writer (Special from US News & World Report/New America Media) — Fear of falling can take a toll when your sense of balance is fading. Some seniors avoid ... NOPA demands S&WB reform and calls for Mayor Landrieu to step down
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer As a result of a spate of S&WB malfunctions affecting the city’s water supply and an ever-present possibly of flooding, the New Orleans Peoples Assembly (NOPA) is ... How racism impacts people, families and communities of color
By Rosa Riley Contributing Writer (Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from LivingCities.org) — The statistics are troubling. People of color are far more likely to suffer from inequity. Inequity that ... Advocates push Black wealth 2020 as movement spreads
By Hazel Trice Edney Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — Black Wealth 2020, a new movement aiming to change the course of Black wealth in America, is gaining swift support from national advocates ...
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