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Data Staff Edited Report The Louisiana Federation for Children (LFC), the state’s voice for educational choice, applauds the passage of legislation that will fully fund the Louisiana Scholarship Program for the 2018-2019 school year. On […]

Data News Weekly Staff Report GirlTrek, the largest National Public Health non-profit and movement for Black women and girls, is bringing radical self-care and healing to the City of Detroit as part of its yearlong, […]

Data News Weekly Staff Report Mayor LaToya Cantrell will welcome the arrival of the King and Queen of Spain to the City of New Orleans next week. The upcoming visit coincides with the City’s year-long […]

Data News Weekly Staff Report Since 2011, residents of New Orleans have disposed of more than 80 tons of unwanted electronics at the Department of Sanitation’s Recycling Drop-Off Center. Donations are collected on the second Saturday of […]

By Juliana Tomasoni People in New Orleans have one more venue to celebrate the Tricentennial. The New Orleans Historic Collection on Chartres Street in the French Quarter held a reception to launch its exhibition titled […]

By Bill Hill Opioid Addiction has become one of the greatest problems facing our nation, claiming as many as 120 lives each day. As part of a new “Justice & Mercy Initiatives” Program at Central […]

Beyoncé, through her BeyGOOD Initiative, announced the four schools to receive the newly established Homecoming Scholars Award Program for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. The Universities, Xavier, Wilberforce, Tuskegee and Bethune-Cookman, are all Historically Black Colleges […]

NEW ORLEANS — Mayor LaToya Cantrell signed her first four executive orders, closing out her third week in office with a series of moves designed to improve the function of the City of New Orleans […]