La.’s historic veto override session: Winners and losers
By Julia O’Donoghue Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Republican leaders in the Louisiana Legislature ended the first veto override session in the history of the state Wednesday, three days earlier than the session ... Texas Democrats are getting into ‘good trouble’
By Ben Jealous TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist One year after the death of the great civil rights icon John Lewis, a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers is following Lewis’s lifelong call for people to ... The GOP plot to take back the White House and more
Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets, not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters. The Brennan Center for Justice ... Brown v. Board turns 67, Critical Race Theory and The 1619 Project: White people’s new boogeyman
Part IV The U.S. Supreme Court took a year to decide to integrate public schools. It took more than a half-century, 58 years after the Supreme Court ruled in 1896 Plessy ... Study: NOLa. experienced America’s worst homicide spike during pandemic
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer New Orleans had the highest increase in homicides per capita during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Together New Orleans hosts discussion on citizen needs
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer A citywide assembly of congregations and citizen organizations met July 13 at Dillard University as part of one of the largest grassroots organizing efforts in the history ... Southern states’ anti-protest bills face First Amendment challenges
By Billy Corriher Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — In the past year, following last summer’s uprising against racial injustice, Republican-led legislatures across the South have created new criminal penalties for ... New Orleans Council puts library and housing property tax renewals on the November ballot
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens Orleans Parish voters will decide in November whether to renew two property taxes that expire at the end of the year — one for the public ... EPA should force Louisiana to curb air pollution, environmentalists say
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Environmental groups are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reject Louisiana’s draft proposal to meet federally-mandated pollution reductions and instead enforce its own federal ...
STEM NOLA draws over 300 children to Rocket Day
By Kai Davis Contributing Writer After more than a year of having to pause in-person activities, STEM NOLA, the science and technology program, has resumed in-person educational events, starting with its ...
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By Julia O’Donoghue Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Republican leaders in the Louisiana Legislature ended the first veto override session in the history of the state Wednesday, three days earlier than the session ... Texas Democrats are getting into ‘good trouble’
By Ben Jealous TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist One year after the death of the great civil rights icon John Lewis, a group of Texas Democratic lawmakers is following Lewis’s lifelong call for people to ... The GOP plot to take back the White House and more
Earl Ofari Hutchinson Guest Columnist The GOP’s relentless war on alleged rampant voter fraud targets, not thousands, as many critics have noted, but millions of eligible voters. The Brennan Center for Justice ... Brown v. Board turns 67, Critical Race Theory and The 1619 Project: White people’s new boogeyman
Part IV The U.S. Supreme Court took a year to decide to integrate public schools. It took more than a half-century, 58 years after the Supreme Court ruled in 1896 Plessy ... Study: NOLa. experienced America’s worst homicide spike during pandemic
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer New Orleans had the highest increase in homicides per capita during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study. Together New Orleans hosts discussion on citizen needs
By Meghan Holmes Contributing Writer A citywide assembly of congregations and citizen organizations met July 13 at Dillard University as part of one of the largest grassroots organizing efforts in the history ... Southern states’ anti-protest bills face First Amendment challenges
By Billy Corriher Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) — In the past year, following last summer’s uprising against racial injustice, Republican-led legislatures across the South have created new criminal penalties for ... New Orleans Council puts library and housing property tax renewals on the November ballot
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens Orleans Parish voters will decide in November whether to renew two property taxes that expire at the end of the year — one for the public ... EPA should force Louisiana to curb air pollution, environmentalists say
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Environmental groups are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to reject Louisiana’s draft proposal to meet federally-mandated pollution reductions and instead enforce its own federal ...
By Kai Davis Contributing Writer After more than a year of having to pause in-person activities, STEM NOLA, the science and technology program, has resumed in-person educational events, starting with its ...
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