State Supreme Court hears case that could overturn hundreds of split-jury convictions
By Nick Chrastil The Lens The Louisiana Supreme Court on Tuesday (May 10) heard oral arguments in a case that could determine the fate of hundreds of prisoners throughout the state who ... N.O. City Council establishes right to counsel ordinance for residents facing eviction
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Supporters of fairness and justice in housing in New Orleans lauded the City Council’s May 5 adoption of an ordinance that people facing eviction from their homes ... If the Supreme Court ends abortion rights, Black women will be the ones most wounded
By Barrington M. Salmon Contributing Writer (TriceEdneyWire.com) — As the implications of the impending death of Roe v Wade sinks in a week after a Supreme Court draft opinion was leaked, one ... The brain shrinks by five percent beginning at 45, experts say banish the distractions
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Ted Zanto, an associate professor of neurology at the University of California, San Francisco, said aging shrinks the brain by about 5 percent ... CROWN Act to end natural hairstyle discrimination fails again in Louisiana
By JC Canicosa Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Legislation to protect Louisiana students and workers from discrimination based on their natural or protective hairstyles failed to make it through the Louisiana Legislature for ... HBCU announces that it is shuttering its doors after COVID-19, cyberattacks
(defendernewsservice.com) – The final graduation exercises were held on May 7. Liberty Bank announces a changing of the guard in naming Todd McDonald its new president
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Liberty Bank and Trust’s board of directors and its co-founder and CEO Alden McDonald Jr. announced Todd McDonald would has taken over as president effective May ... The Black Restaurant Accelerator Program celebrated recently
By Skylar Stephens Contributing Writer The National Urban League and the PepsiCo Foundation celebrated their joint initiative, the Black Restaurant Accelerator program, on May 2. Biden Administration leads 55 nations in setting new global internet rules
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The Biden administration and 55 countries have partnered to call for a new Declaration for the Future of the Internet. New wrinkle in the 1960 murder of four Black men murdered in La.
Editor’s Note: This is a follow-up to the LSU Manship News Service series, “Kinning on Ticheli Road” which ran in The Louisiana Weekly in August – September, 2021. By Liz Ryan Contributing ...
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