While living and working in New Orleans, Louis Jordan frequently played with trumpeter Wallace Davenport, and had a unique ...

Unionized nurses at University Medical Center began a two-day strike on Tuesday (July 15), alleging that hospital ...

Francis Ernest Dumas was a wealthy soldier who became the highest ranking Black combat officer during the Civil War.

A native New Orleanian explores the meaning of language in the context of the city's history of slavery and racism.

I’m a super big fan of the president, but I’m going to challenge him any time he gets something wrong,” Central, Louisiana, ...

Following the disastrous outage from Hurricane Ida in 2021, Entergy New Orleans has invested in grid hardening, but is it ...

An account of what it was like for some enslaved people to make the weeks-long journey by ship from the mid-Atlantic states ...

The community clinics expect to serve more uninsured patients following federal Medicaid cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill ...

After more than a decade of delays, the New Orleans City Council has approved a program to cut energy use in large buildings ...

Alice Craft-Kerney had been working as a nurse at Charity Hospital for over 19 years when Hurricane Katrina hit and disrupted ...

Explore stories on how New Orleans was built by slave labor, made wealthy by slave trade and molded by the cultures of the ...

The first Black people to serve in the Louisiana Legislature and Civil War leaders established a church with 1846 roots. St.