Endorsements for November 16 election

Governor John Bel Edwards received 21,000 fewer votes in this year’s primary than he received against David Vitter in the 2015 runoff. According to pollster

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School secession movement drives re-segregation

By Benjamin Barber Contributing Writer (Special from Facing South) – Re-segregation is on the rise in American schools. Black students in the South are less

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Orleans Public Defenders Office needs more funding
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer Less than a month after calling for the dismissal of all existing arrest warrants, tickets and court fees, the Orleans Public Defenders Office followed up with a ... Citywide school audit will cover about 5 percent of high school student files
By Marta Jewson The Lens NOLA Public Schools district Superintendent Henderson Lewis Jr.’s promised citywide audit of high school academic records will cover about five percent of high school students, The Lens ... National Black Census finds police brutality, employment amongst Black Americans major concerns
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer When officials with the Black Futures Lab, a national non-profit empowerment group, approached the New Orleans’ Ubuntu Village organization to help conduct the first large-scale, nationwide survey ... Election recommendations
Apathy, a lethargy of the electorate which sentenced the United States to Donald Trump when everyone assumed Hillary Clinton would coast to victory in 2016. New Orleans tries to prevent mass shootouts and gang killings
By Susan Buchanan Contributing Writer Partly because of its public gatherings, New Orleans has had mass shootings and gang killings that hurt bystanders. Louisiana — a mostly open-carry gun state — bans ... 94 years of freedom fighting and counting
The Louisiana Weekly, which turns 94 on September 19, 2019, holds the distinction of being the oldest, continuously published African-American-owned newspaper in the Southeast. For any business, especially a Black ... Hearing date set in Gert Town radium case
By Ryan Whirty Contributing Writer A hearing has been scheduled for Oct. 24 in U.S. District Court regarding the City of New Orleans’ move to dismiss a lawsuit filed by two residents ... 17 million voters purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018
By Stacy M. Brown Contributing Writer (NNPA Newswire) – A Brennan Center analysis has found that at least 17 million voters were purged nationwide between 2016 and 2018, similar to the ...
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