Data Zone
Mayor’s Mardi Gras Ball
Photos by Glenn Summers Data News Weekly Contributor Last Friday our new mayor, Latoya Cantrell, started off the Mardi Gras season with a blast. The Mayor’s Mardi Gras Ball at Gallier Hall was very well […]
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Local
Femme Fatale Rolled Through Uptown With Female Empowerment
By Hannah Joy Shareef Data News Weekly Contributor Residents turned out to see Grammy Award-Winner Irma Thomas who served as the Grand Marshall this year for the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale’s Parade along the […]
Commentary
To Be Equal: Jussie Smollett Case Threatens to Distract from the Rising Tide of Hate Crimes
By Marc H. Morial President & CEO National Urban League “I’m left hanging my head and asking why. Why would anyone, especially an African American man use the symbolism of a noose to make false […]
Data Zone
Ms. Alicia Carr’s Birthday Party at Prime Example
Photos by Glenn Summers Miss Alicia celebrated her big 60th birthday last Friday, February 22, 2019 with family and friends at The Prime Example Nightclub. The music was pumping, the libation was flowing, and […]
Featured
New Orleans A City of Traditions
Black Carnival Season Data Staff Edited Report It’s Carnival Time Carnival 2019 is in full gear and Mardi Gras Day is steadily creeping upon us. It is a time where a city steeped in the […]
Black Experience
Recognizing Our Black History, A Call to Join the Slave Revolt Reenactment
Leon A. Waters Chair of the Louisiana Museum of African-American History, and Manager of Hidden History Tours This January 12, 2019 marked the 208th Anniversary of Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt and the restart of […]
National
NFL Settles Collusion Case with Kaepernick
By Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Correspondent Colin Kaepernick’s more than two year battle with the NFL has come to an end. The former NFL quarterback and the league have reached a financial settlement in […]
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MHSD Launches Mobile Unit Outreach Safe Zones this Mardi Gras Season
NEW ORLEANS, LA – Metropolitan Human Services District has received a $740 thousand grant for the Louisiana State Opioid Response (LaSOR) program from the Louisiana Department of Health – Office of Behavioral Health. This funding […]
Local
Purchased Lives Exhibit Examines the African-American Experience
By Avane Ervin Data News Weekly Contributor This year marks the 400th year that enslaved Africans arrived in the United States. The slave narratives they left behind provides a history to African-American culture. Retired Dillard […]
Entertainment
Black Millennials Embrace the Struggle and Message of Rapper 21 Savage
By Malika Elmengad and Franklin Chavis Black Millennial Voices Becoming a well-known hip-hop rapper involves displaying creative genius and talent on the stage and in recording studios. Unfortunately, for some young aspiring hip-hop artists, unjust […]