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New Study: Innocent Blacks 7x more likely to be wrongfully convicted of murder than innocent whites

By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — According to the latest report from The Innocence Project, innocent Black people are seven times more

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Subcommittee supports reform measure to dismantle ‘qualified immunity’ shield for bad police officers

By Wesley Muller Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — A Louisiana House subcommittee on Tuesday voted to support a police-reform recommendation that would dismantle the qualified immunity

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La. Legislative Audit calls for improvements to air quality regulations
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer A January report from the Louisiana Legislative Auditor said the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) must strengthen its monitoring of air quality regulations and enforce them ...
Report: New Orleans, the 7th worst city for teacher pay
By Fritz Esker Contributing Writer A recent report from Hire a Helper ranked New Orleans as the 7th worst large metro area for public teacher pay and Louisiana as the 14th worst ...
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Advocates press N.O.’s new DA on criminal justice reform
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer A coalition of local and national racial justice advocates are pressing newly-elected Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams to follow through on his campaign pledge to institute ...
A New America dawns with President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Absent the routine large crowds, and with snow flurries helping to push the tens of thousands of American flags that blanketed the National ...
Experts examine racial inequalities between Black and white Americans
By Nigell Moses Contributing Writer After an overwhelming year of loss, turmoil, a global pandemic and a relentless need for social change, 2020 proved to challenge not only individuals in America, ...
‘We Took the Capitol’ Trump supporters storm the Chambers of Congress
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) — Thousands of President Donald Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday as Vice President Mike Pence presided over the Electoral College vote.
Statue of segregationist judge moved from outside La. Supreme Court building
By Jarvis DeBerry Contributing Writer (lailluminator.com) — The statue of Edward Douglass White Jr., a Confederate soldier who served on the Louisiana Supreme Court, was relocated from outside the court building on ...
N.O. City Council bans facial recognition, predictive policing and other surveillance tech
By Michael Isaac Stein The Lens The New Orleans City Council passed a new law at its December 17 meeting that regulates certain parts of the city’s surveillance system and places an ...

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