How prisons imperil Black voting power in post-Katrina Louisiana
By Zoe Sullivan (Special from New America Media) — Angola, lending platform the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Sometimes called “The ...
Hurricane Katrina: Where are we six years later?
By Michael Radcliff The Louisiana Weekly Monday, August 29, 2011, marks the sixth anniversary of the Storm of the Century — Hurricane Katrina. Much has been written and said regarding the ...
Honored 58 years after integrating LSU
In May, LSU’s first Black undergraduate student, Alexander Pierre Tureaud Jr., was awarded an LSU degree, 58 years after he first began to pursue that degree in 1953. Tureaud was ... Louisiana adopts new law for kindergarten assessment
One of the most important laws adopted in the 2011 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature has been virtually unnoticed. House Bill 100 by Representative Steve Carter requires that every ... 2011 La. Legislative session legacy: Lack of accomplishment
By Christopher Tidmore The Louisiana Weekly The 2011 Legislative Session will likely be remembered more for what was not accomplished than that which was. The SUNO-UNO merger failed. A single college board ... Store owner told ‘take Black pictures down’
By J. Kojo Livingston The Louisiana Weekly Contributing Writer SHREVEPORT, LA. – Richard Washington was truly surprised when the first anonymous phone call came. The caller was a white man telling him ... Vital programs deserve public support and public dollars
The ongoing state budget crisis has forced policymakers to scrutinize the importance and contributions of state-supported programs. Two items of utmost importance to the state are 1) ... Review of the FHL/RMJM Hillier report
With all the financial uncertainties that have been exposed by the recent small loans same day payout independent studies on the economic viability of the proposed new University Medical Center ...
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By Zoe Sullivan (Special from New America Media) — Angola, lending platform the Louisiana State Penitentiary, is one of the most notorious prisons in the United States. Sometimes called “The ...
By Michael Radcliff The Louisiana Weekly Monday, August 29, 2011, marks the sixth anniversary of the Storm of the Century — Hurricane Katrina. Much has been written and said regarding the ...
In May, LSU’s first Black undergraduate student, Alexander Pierre Tureaud Jr., was awarded an LSU degree, 58 years after he first began to pursue that degree in 1953. Tureaud was ... Louisiana adopts new law for kindergarten assessment
One of the most important laws adopted in the 2011 Regular Session of the Louisiana Legislature has been virtually unnoticed. House Bill 100 by Representative Steve Carter requires that every ... 2011 La. Legislative session legacy: Lack of accomplishment
By Christopher Tidmore The Louisiana Weekly The 2011 Legislative Session will likely be remembered more for what was not accomplished than that which was. The SUNO-UNO merger failed. A single college board ... Store owner told ‘take Black pictures down’
By J. Kojo Livingston The Louisiana Weekly Contributing Writer SHREVEPORT, LA. – Richard Washington was truly surprised when the first anonymous phone call came. The caller was a white man telling him ... Vital programs deserve public support and public dollars
The ongoing state budget crisis has forced policymakers to scrutinize the importance and contributions of state-supported programs. Two items of utmost importance to the state are 1) ... Review of the FHL/RMJM Hillier report
With all the financial uncertainties that have been exposed by the recent small loans same day payout independent studies on the economic viability of the proposed new University Medical Center ...
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