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By Michele McCalope BATON ROUGE—Following a 10-month investigation into the extrajudicial killing of Alton Sterling, Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry announced that his office would not pursue criminal charges against the officers involved. Sterling, a […]

Photos by Kichea S. Burt   The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation hosted it’s press conference for the 2018 New Orleans Jazz Fest which will run April 27-29 and May 3-6 at the Fair Grounds Race Course on […]

By Edwin Buggage As we continue our over 50-year mission as “The People’s Paper” we at Data News Weekly want to thank all of those who came out and voted in the election and let […]

Data Staff Edited Report Ashé Cultural Arts Center announces the Kuumba Institute Summer Program for children ages 6 to 16.  The seven-week program runs from June 4 to July 20, 2018, operating Mondays through Fridays, 8:30 a.m. […]

By Brianna Montgomery Female musicians have been in the shadows of male musicians for many decades, but their stories are hardly ever told. But in revisiting the Judy Chaikin Documentary “The Girls in the Band,” […]

The Jeremiah Group continues to practice what the Founding Fathers preached: the ongoing attempts to make democracy an everyday reality for more and more Americans On Monday, March 12, 2018, The Jeremiah Group presented the […]

By Victoria Clark Doretha Smith walked around the lobby of the sixth floor as she acknowledged old pictures of herself and her friends. As she walked forward and spoke to people nearby her, others started […]

By Piper Thurman As part of commemorating Black History Month across the City, the World War II Museum on Magazine Street convened a panel of historians on Feb. 21, 2018, to revisit what African-Americans faced […]

By Edwin Buggage Special Session Focus on Balance Budget The Louisiana Legislature is presently in a special session in an attempt to balance the budget for 2018-19. Presently, there is a 1-billion-dollar deficit that legislators […]

By Jared Braud Colored Conventions began in 1830 and were held by free, once captive, Black people who came together to organize Civil Rights activities. This is why students and residents came to Tulane University […]