Black students and their families have long viewed the system used to rank colleges and universities with a jaundiced eye given its penchant for applying metrics that often relegate historically Black ...

Pearlie Elloie never wanted to be a hero. She had no plans to be a symbol of the civil rights movement, and she sure didn’t plan on integrating one of the most prominent universities in the United ...

(VeriteNews.org) — New Orleans criminal justice officials are racing to launch a new system for tracking criminal cases in the courts within the next two months. The upgrade is part of a $30 million ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

One of the most interesting findings of the data recently released by the Census Bureau is that so many recent college graduates live with their parents. Described as “boomerang” graduates, a third of ...

During his campaign for Orleans Parish district attorney, Jason Williams said that if elected he would keep a list of police officers in New Orleans with credibility problems — such as a history of ...

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 ...

Louisiana has a choice. We can elect a Governor who brings us honor, or one that carries with him national contempt upon assuming our top office. The people of Greater New Orleans have a choice. We ...