The state’s apology: 50 years too late?
By C.C. Campbell-Rock Contributing Writer Surviving members of students united last Wednesday and gathered at the Old State Capitol in Baton Rouge to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of a life-changing day, November ... N.O. City Council significantly expands approval power over city contracts
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The New Orleans City Council last week unanimously passed an ordinance to require the mayor to get council approval to sign contracts worth more than $1 ... Seven top takeaways from this year’s midterms
By Ben Jealous TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist As the dust settles on the midterm elections and the warnings of a “Red Wave” evaporate, it’s time to take a deep breath and take stock of ... Election reflections – ignore the pollsters, challenge the Democrats
By Julianne Malveaux TriceEdneyWire.com Columnist To let the pollsters tell it, Democrats were going to get a “drubbing” or a “shellacking” just like the one President Barack Obama experienced in 2010 when ... The fight to save Affirmative Action for all of us
By Emil Guillermo Guest Columnist Don’t think for a second that Asian Americans are rooting to end affirmative action. It’s past time for another sankofa moment
The results of Louisiana’s 2022 Congressional mid-term elections show that Black voters didn’t show up at the polls adequately to elect the first Black U.S. senator since Reconstruction. Schedule conflict keeps Gov. John Bel Edwards from Ronald Greene hearing
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The mother of Ronald Greene, the Black motorist who died at the hands of state troopers in 2019, testified on November 14 in a meeting ... After 1972 Southern University shootings, deputies deny knowing who fired fatal shots
By Drew Hawkins, Adrian Dubose, Allison Allsop and Alex Tirado Contributing Writers Editor’s Note: This is the third in a four-part series from the LSU Cold Case Project. (LSU Manship School News Service) ... New Orleans gets much needed deadline extension to spend $1.7B in Katrina FEMA funds
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens FEMA has granted an extension for the city of New Orleans to finish spending $1.66 billion in post-Hurricane Katrina disaster funding for roadwork and drainage projects ... After an autistic teen’s in-custody death, Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office used criminal search warrants to dig into his past
By Nick Chrastil The Lens In January of 2020, several deputies with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office restrained Eric Parsa, a severely autistic 16-year-old, by sitting on him for over nine minutes ...
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