Last Night, the Office of the Mayor reported that the Sewerage and Water Board lost service of a power turbine that powered the remaining operating pumps in the City of New Orleans. With rain in […]
Eric Craig On Saturday, August 5th, several neighborhoods in New Orleans were left underwater after a summer storm dropped 9.3 inches of rain in some neighborhoods. That flood has affected Black businesses. The Zulu […]
Deja Dennis Havana, Cuba – The allure of the emerging New Orleans Film Industry has been recognized by filmmakers in the Caribbean, and New Orleans could even be the future site for the Travelling Caribbean […]
Lauren Victoria Burke In May of 2017, the Black unemployment rate hit its lowest level in 17 years: 7.5 percent. Then, in June, the jobless rate for Blacks fell to 7.1 percent, before rising to 7.4 […]
Lauren Poteat As Derrick Johnson assumes the role of interim president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), leaders of the nation’s oldest Black civil rights organization say that young people […]
On Monday, July 31st, Mayor Mitch Landrieu presented the proposed Operating and Capital Budgets for 2018 to the New Orleans City Council. The $647 million proposed operating budget is completely balanced and continues to invest […]
Harvey Brown Starting Monday, July 31st, the New Orleans Regional Transportation Authority will begin construction of its Cemeteries Transit Center. The project is funded in part by the Federal Transit Administration. Construction will affect the […]
Stacy M. Brown O.J. Simpson will be a free man on October 1. On Thursday, July 20th, a Nevada parole board unanimously voted to grant the fallen gridiron star parole on his 2008 conviction on […]
Last week, the New Orleans Mosquito, Termite and Rodent Control Board detected the West Nile Virus in Mosquitos in Orleans Parish. As of now, NOMTCB has not reported any persons contracting the West Nile Virus […]
On Monday, July 17th, the Orleans Parish Sheriff Office named Virginia B. Ryan, Justice System Administrator for the Office. Ryan begins serving on July 17, 2017. Before the appointment, Ryan formerly worked at the Orleans […]
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