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Story and Photos by Nigell Moses Data News Weekly Contributor For visitors in New Orleans, second lining is for entertainment, a once a year Mardi Gras event, but for New Orleanians, it’s a lifestyle. That […]

City of New Orleans NEW ORLEANS – After several weeks of budget hearings, the Council adopted the City’s 2020 Operating and Capital Budgets, concluding the Annual Budget Review Process and establishing spending levels for the […]

Data News Weekly Staff Edited Report NEW ORLEANS — Recently, the City cut the ribbon beginning a new chapter at the new Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport that’s officially open. State and City officials […]

Sydney Odom Data News Weekly Contributor She received backlash from conservative voices online, but award-winning Journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones said she knew that the 1619 Project was an important journalistic exercise to correct the History of […]

Data News Weekly Staff Edited Report Photos by Eric Waters   Community Book Center (CBC), sponsored an intimate book club event featuring bestselling Author Ta-Nehisi Coates on Wednesday, October 30, 2019.   This gathering was […]

Story and Photos Edward Carter III Data News Weekly Contributor It’s a system that takes a toll on families the most. In a country that has the largest prison population and the highest per-capita incarceration […]

Hannah Joy Shareef Data News Weekly Contributor Climate change and environmental degradation have become an existential problem for communities, advocates said, yet the topic of climate change is overlooked because people still remain uninformed. Citizens […]

Data News Staff Edited Report NEW ORLEANS – Mayor LaToya Cantrell joined public safety officials to provide the most recent updates in the response to the partial collapse of the Hard Rock Hotel building under […]

Story and Photos Lacee Ancar Data News Weekly Contributor The artists needed no introduction. “I wear an exclamation point as my name,” proclaimed Poet Asali DeVan Ecclesiastes, one of the featured performers at “A Night […]