Kimberly Thomas, who served a decade ago on the S&WB, was given nod by a council committee last week and was slated for ...

Bernard Smith on New Orleans' notorious House of Detention and protections for Angola's Farm Line workers in summer heat.

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In New Orleans, dozens joined the inaugural Ride for Peace—part protest, part celebration—organized by Ubuntu Village and the ...

It helps you to be conscious when the security (the free man) is talking to you crazy, You want to pop him upside his head. Instead, you learn in critical thinking class to think, “Oh this clown. He ...

Some of us aren’t just shouting from the sidelines. Some of us were in the room,” writes Henderson-Uloho, who founded the SisterHearts Decarceration Program, and taught decarceration classes in the ...

After years of FOIA requests and research, security engineer Matthew Wollenweber knows that NOPD is lying about their unlawful use of Project NOLA and facial-recognition software, he writes.

Sunrise Foods released air-quality assessments scant in detail. But early last month, LDEQ accelerated the company’s approval for its air-permit application.

When Essence Communications rebranded its flagship event as the Essence Festival of Culture, it may have seemed like a harmless update. But in a city like New Orleans, where culture is lived—not ...

This week on Behind The Lens, Louisiana reclassifies natural gas as “green energy” under a controversial new law signed by Gov. Jeff Landry. We also examine a major expansion of ammonia plants in ...