The City of New Orleans and the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office on June 7 announced that a settlement has been reached in a federal civil rights lawsuit filed by former inmate Reginald Adams ...

(lailluminator.com) – Black voters made up a larger share of participants on Louisiana’s first day of early voting than they have in almost every other election over the past 18 years, making ...

On September 19, The Louisiana Weekly will celebrate its 99th anniversary of covering stories focused on New Orleans’ African-American community. Originally founded under the moniker The New Orleans ...

Any potential legislative victory or success favoring a Democratic president and a Democratic-controlled House and Senate will automatically receive Republican obstruction. That is an undisputable ...

Guided by the love and devotion of a dedicated Christian mother, Lena M. Wiley, young Joseph Douglas Wiley received his call to preach at the ripe old age of seven. “My spiritual journey started in ...

Residents in the Lower Ninth Ward and Holy Cross neighborhoods of New Orleans continue to protest a plan by Sunrise Foods International to repurpose the Alabo Street Wharf rail track into a grain ...

The Louisiana Department of the Treasury and the State Bond Commission are offering financial assistance to local governments hoping to jump-start recovery from the impact of Hurricane Isaac this past ...

A big part of his work as the district’s chief school support officer is to reduce the proportion of students who are ...

(Michigan Chronicle) – Median wealth among Black households fell 25 percent between 2022 and 2025, widening the racial wealth ...

(lailluminator.com) – Louisiana has agreed to a lump-sum payment for the remainder of what BP owes from the Deepwater Horizon ...

The rise in the uninsured rate comes after a long period of progress: Between 2010 and 2025, the overall uninsured rate in the United States fell by half, to 8 percent from nearly 16 percent, largely ...

(lailluminator.com) – Black voters made up a larger share of participants on Louisiana’s first day of early voting than they have in almost every other election over the past 18 years, making ...