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Data News Staff Edited Report The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) today announces the appointment of Amanda M. Maples as Françoise Billion Richardson Curator of African Art. Maples joins the museum this week and […]

Data News Staff Edited Report We are thrilled to announce that Chief Adjuah (formerly known as Christian Scott) will be joining us as our Maafa 2023 Grand Griot! As the embodiment of the griot tradition, […]

Xavier University of Louisiana For nearly one hundred years, the nation’s only Historically Black and Catholic institution of higher education, Xavier University of Louisiana, has boasted excellent and dedicated faculty committed to the university’s mission […]

Stacy M. Brown NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent In a surprising decision on Thursday, the Supreme Court struck down Republican-drawn congressional districts in Alabama, ruling that they discriminated against Black voters. The 5-4 vote means […]

Data News Staff Edited Report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) presented a grant to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality at an event on Monday. EPA Regional Administrator Dr. Earthea Nance, U.S. Rep. Troy […]

Data News Staff Edited Report Kim Vaz-Deville, PhD, Professor of Counseling and Education at Xavier University of Louisiana, was recently named a member of Harvard Radcliffe Institute’s 2023–2024 class of fellows, a cohort whose projects […]

Data News Staff Edited Report Last week, Entergy New Orleans (ENO) filed an appeal in Orleans Parish Civil District Court over a previously imposed fine by the New Orleans City Council, making good on their […]