Commentary
From Desire To Purpose…A Dreamer’s Journey
What’s Next As You Step Into The New Year Renée Dugué Co-Founder and Executive Director of Reborn & Rising As the end of 2020 is upon us and we ease into another bi-polar Southern winter, […]
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Commentary
Violence Against Men often Overlooked, Rarely Spoken
Kira Mercado Data News Weekly Contributor Stay-at-home orders in 2020 correlated with an increase in forms of domestic violence, assaults, and intimate partner violence. While one in four women typically experience forms of intimate violence, […]
National
Black Critical Care Nurse Among 1st in US to Receive COVID-19 Vaccine
Data News Weekly Staff Edited Report . A New York City ICU Nurse became the first New Yorker, and possibly the first American, to receive an authorized COVID-19 vaccine Monday, receiving her injection in a […]
Featured
Jason Williams Wins District Attorney’s Race
Edwin Buggage Editor-in-Chief The Race to Reform the District Attorney’s Office In these historic times, there are many things that are happening that’s shifting the cultural landscape and conversations about justice, equity, and fairness. New […]
Data Zone
Cookbook Retraces New Orleans History Through Cuisine
Kira Mercado Data News Weekly Contributor The holidays are a time when families come together, and food is often the heart and soul of the Black family. Through “Recipes and Remembrance of Fair Dillard, 1869-2019,” […]
Data Zone
Jason Willams Victory Celebration
Malcolm Flot Photographer The City of New Orleans elected a new District Attorney on Dec. 5, 2020. City Councilman-at-Large Jason Williams defeated Judge Keva Landrum in a run-off election. Surrounded by supporters at the NOLA […]
Local
City Commission Proposes 37 Street and Places for Renaming
Manuel Scherif Data News Weekly Contributor The newly formed New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission will consider 37 streets, parks, and public places named after Confederate figures and White supremacists, for future renaming. The […]
Local
Sharlayne Jackson Prevost becomes first African American elected Judge of Second Parish Court Division A in Jefferson Parish
Data News Staff Edited Report In what is historical times for African Americans and women running for elected office; there is another historic first that took place in Jefferson Parish on Election Night. Sharlayne Jackson-Prevost […]
Sports
Who Dat Going to the Playoffs this Year
Fleur De Lis Data News Weekly Columnist What’s up my good people of the 5-0-4? Happy Holidays, and although we are in different times during the Pandemic and celebrating is being altered; but the last […]
Commentary
Happiness: You Only Get One Life
Dionne Character Female Empowerment Columnist People may never understand your happiness and why your dreams continue to flourish when they ain’t got nothing tangible to hold up against your endeavors spearheaded by God as you […]