By Kai Davis Contributing Writer It is her mission to ensure students, like her, can attend and graduate from college debt free. Now Normandie Cormier, a 20-year-old Lafayette, La., native, has ... Mandated $15 minimum wage for city contractors speeds toward passage
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The City Council’s economic development committee advanced an ordinance on Thursday to force city contractors and recipients of city grants or other financial assistance to pay ... New initiative prepares high schoolers for career in the sports industry
By Kai Davis Contributing Writer In honoring the legacy of Leah Chase, the Edgar “Dooky” Jr. & Leah Chase Family Foundation will team up with the Arnie D. Fielkow Family Foundation ... Palmer, Brossett and Morrell kick off New Orleans Council-at-Large bids
By Christopher Tidmore Contributing Writer It’s a testament to the growing intensity of the New Orleans Council at-Large Division 2 race that contender Kristin Palmer even filed Motion 21-228 last Wednesday. ...
By JC Canicosa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Despite objections from preservationist groups, LSU has moved ahead with demolishing McDonogh No. 11, a 142-year-old New Orleans elementary school that has undergone millions of ... Black and Hispanic Americans suffer most in biggest US decline in life expectancy since WWII
By Liz Szabo Contributing Writer (Special from khn.org) — Although James Toussaint has never had COVID, the pandemic is taking a profound toll on his health. Fraction of La. unemployment payments went to dead people, audit finds
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The Louisiana Workforce Commission distributed just over one one-hundredth of its total unemployment payments to people who were dead during the coronavirus pandemic, according to ... Ending Virtual-School Oppression: Black students disproportionately punished for harmless behavior at home during Zoom classes
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from the Southern Poverty Law Center) — Isaiah Elliott was suspended from seventh grade for holding a toy gun in an online art ... President Biden announces first nominees for Board to Review Civil Rights Era cold cases
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Fourteen years ago, the Southern Poverty Law Center sent the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice a list of 74 cold cases ... Don’t believe the political hype! Constitutional rights have limits
Rudy Giuliani, his attorneys and Donald Trump assert that the insurrectionists and members of Trump’s militia were exercising their First Amendment right to assemble and freely express themselves on January ...
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