A lower court ruled in November that requiring public schools around the state to display the Ten Commandments violates the ...

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Five days after President Donald Trump began his second term with a flurry of discriminatory activity, New Orleans activists ...

A historic winter storm hit New Orleans on Tuesday (Jan. 21), covering the city — and much of Southeast Louisiana — with snow ...

Nearly every flight was cancelled at New Orleans Louis Armstrong International Airport as snow blanketed the city.

According to Joseph, “Morgiane” is likely the first four-act opera written by a Black American composer. Dédé was born and ...

Donald Trump has said he will overturn a law that helps communities better weather the effects of climate change.

President Joe Biden on Monday granted clemency to Leonard Peltier, an 80-year-old American Indian Movement activist who had ...

Built as a venue for wrestling and boxing matches, the Coliseum Arena was the site of Martin Luther King Jr.’s first speech ...

More than 100 people gathered at A.L. Davis Park in Central City on Monday (Jan. 20) to protest the inauguration of Donald ...

Racial Violence and the 1887 Sugar Cane Labor Strike" is about an attack by white vigilantes on Black workers.

Sign up for Verite's free newsletters and get the New Orleans news you need three times a week. Gov. Jeff Landry caught New Orleans officials off guard in October ...