Bernard Smith on New Orleans' notorious House of Detention and protections for Angola's Farm Line workers in summer heat.

Kimberly Thomas, who served a decade ago on the S&WB, was given nod by a council committee last week and was slated for ...

When Essence Communications rebranded its flagship event as the Essence Festival of Culture, it may have seemed like a ...

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It helps you to be conscious when the security (the free man) is talking to you crazy, You want to pop him upside his head. Instead, you learn in critical thinking class to think, “Oh this clown. He ...

In New Orleans, dozens joined the inaugural Ride for Peace—part protest, part celebration—organized by Ubuntu Village and the ...

After years of FOIA requests and research, security engineer Matthew Wollenweber knows that NOPD is lying about their unlawful use of Project NOLA and facial-recognition software, he writes.

Some of us aren’t just shouting from the sidelines. Some of us were in the room,” writes Henderson-Uloho, who founded the SisterHearts Decarceration Program, and taught decarceration classes in the ...

This week on Behind The Lens, Louisiana reclassifies natural gas as “green energy” under a controversial new law signed by ...

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.

VOTE members outside the jail in September, after an anti-Phase III rally. Many older VOTE members remembered the city’s notorious pre-Katrina jail complex, which encompassed 12 buildings and, on an ...

New Orleans, home to fewer than 400,000 people, has always been a tourist town, and locals have long complained that throngs of out-of-towners endanger the city’s authenticity. But Airbnb and other ...