Lawyers push to relocate St. John elementary students from school next to chemical plant

By Halle Parker, WWNO Contributing Writer The NAACP Legal Defense Fund is asking a federal judge to require St. John the Baptist Parish School Board

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Candidates sign up to run in new majority-Black La. Supreme Court district

By Julie O’Donoghue Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Two state appellate court judges and a Baton Rouge government administrator signed up last Wednesday to run for

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School vouchers were supposed to save taxpayer money. Instead they blew a massive hole in Arizona’s budget.
By Eli Hager ProPublica In 2022, Arizona pioneered the largest school voucher program in the history of education. Under a new law, any parent in the state, no matter how affluent, could ... Appeals court sends La. LNG terminal project back to regulators
By Greg LaRose Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — Federal regulators will have to reconsider its review of a proposed liquified natural gas terminal in southwest Louisiana based on an appellate court ruling Tuesday ... 15k Louisianans lose food stamps due to reinstated federal work requirements
By Nick Chrastil The Lens More than 15,000 people across Louisiana have been kicked off of state food-stamp rolls in recent months. Heritage Foundation touts controversial Project 2025 plan on RNC outskirts
By Ashley Murray Contributing Writer (States Newsroom) — Despite former President Donald Trump’s denial of any connection to the conservative presidential transition plan known as Project 2025, the initiative’s driver, the Heritage ... US Navy exonerates Black WWII sailors convicted after Port Chicago explosion
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — The U.S. Navy has exonerated 256 Black sailors wrongfully convicted after the catastrophic 1944 Port Chicago explosion. The move marks a significant ... ‘Robbed’ Kennedy High School grads get their day in court
By Marta Jewson The Lens On last Wednesday, Judge Marissa Hutabarat of Orleans Parish Civil District Court agreed that John F. Kennedy High School grads of 2019 and 2020 had enough in ... Civil rights pioneer Tessie Prevost dies
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer Tessie Prevost, one of the first Black students to integrate McDonough 19 Elementary School in New Orleans in 1960, passed away over the 4th of July ... Disability advocate files federal lawsuit over state’s new absentee ballot laws
By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) —A group that advocates for people with disabilities filed a Voting Rights Act lawsuit Wednesday against the state of Louisiana to block a slate of new ...
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