Featured
New Orleans: Fifteen Years after Katrina
Edwin Buggage Editor-in-Chief August 29, 2005: A City and the Lives of a People Changed Forever We are 15 years past what was the darkest time for the City of New Orleans, where Hurricane Katrina […]
Month: August 2020
Data Zone
Celebrating the Life of Fred “Chocolate Santa” Parker
[foogallery id=”6277″]Data News Staff Edited Report Fred Parker, the man known as “Seventh Ward Santa” or “Chocolate Santa,” whose warmth and holiday spirit lives on in the thousands of photographs he posed for with generations […]
Data Zone
ASK-Y LLC Begins Production on Cutting Edge TV Series “Smokin’ Good”
NNPA Newswire ASK-Y LLC, a TV/Film production company based in Detroit, has begun production on their highly anticipated show, “Smokin’ Good,” a scripted drama series that is based in the world of cannabis. The series […]
National
New Orleans Own Cedric Richmond Jr., Shines at the Democratic National Convention
Benjamin Bates Data News Weekly Contributor It was an historic Democratic National Convention, with the nomination of Joe Biden and his selection of Sen. Kamala Harris, becoming the first woman of African American and South […]
Commentary
Learning to Savor Each Flavor ahd Every Moment
Renee Dugue Co-Founder and Executive Director of Reborn and Rising I’m so 504! Ask me my favorite food, my favorite music, my favorite holiday, my favorite things to do…they all represent my life in New […]
News
City Council Votes to Rename Jefferson Davis Parkway to Norman C. Francis Parkway
Aviwe DuBois Data News Weekly Contributor On the corner of Drexel Drive and what is currently Jefferson Davis Parkway lies Xavier University of Louisiana’s Campus. On Aug. 20, 2020, the New Orleans City Council unanimously […]
Local
Own the Crescent Expands to Help Small Property Owner Provide Housing
Andrenecia Morris Executive Director, HousingNOLA Two years ago, HousingNOLA launched our Community Development Finance Plan in order to quantify the cost of creating the Affordable Housing opportunities needed to end New Orleans’ housing crisis. We […]
Local
Ephesus SDA Church Drive-Thru Food Distribution
[foogallery id=”6257″] Photos by Davis Haywood and Tariq Shotwell The Ephesus SDA Church hosted a drive-thru food distribution on August 22nd in response to COVID-19 and the vital assistance needed for families within the New […]
Featured
State of Black America 2020
Edwin Buggage Editor-in-Chief Reinvesting in “We the People” Today the nation is at a crossroads in its experiment with Democracy. It is a time when the phrase “We the People” that appears in the preamble […]
Entertainment
Hip-Hop Mogul Percy Miller (Master P) to Pay for Funeral of Young Girl Shot in Dollhouse
Data News Staff Edited Report In a gesture of goodwill Hip-Hop Mogul Percy Miller also know to the world as Master P said he will pay for the funeral of a 3-year-old Kentucky girl who […]