One hundred years ago this month, two New Orleans businessmen formed a partnership to launch a publication that would pave the way for the enlightenment, empowerment, and liberation of people of ...

The popular saying-‘There’s an app for that’ now holds true for 2013 Essence Festival goers, thanks to the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation (NOTMC). NOTMC has teamed up with Essence Fest to ...

Any potential legislative victory or success favoring a Democratic president and a Democratic-controlled House and Senate will automatically receive Republican obstruction. That is an undisputable ...

Two Republican state representatives have been eyeing one another across the floor of the House throughout this legislative session, Representatives Julie Stokes and John Schroder. And both ...

It’s time for the people of Louisiana to wake up and stop living in a dream world. The Republican Party is the party for the rich only and their only concerns are cutting programs that are beneficial ...

Last week, as Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., convened a House Financial Services Committee hearing, featuring the CEOs of Wall Street’s biggest banks, the financial watchdog group Better Markets ...

A day after holding a press conference on the steps of City Hall to issue a pointed challenge to Mayor LaToya Cantrell to include more voices in deciding the fate of four removed Confederate monuments ...

Baton Rouge, LA — The Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) announced that it’s seeking suitable families and individuals to serve as foster parents for the more than 4,300 children in ...

Dozens of residents gathered in front of NOPD headquarters Wednesday evening to talk about the loved ones they have lost to violence and the city’s ongoing struggle with violent crime. Among them were ...

(Special to the NNPA from the Afro-American Newspaper) – Party undermines race among African-American voters; a new study finds, signaling a potentially hard sell for the Republican Party within this ...

President Donald Trump has a knack for diverting attention from his failures, often using race as the vehicle. So when Sen. John McCain came out against the cruel Graham-Cassidy Republican health care ...

Citing “false representations and concealments… made with the intent to deceive Louisiana consumers,” petitioners filed this month a class-action lawsuit against the pharmaceutical industry calling ...