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11/28/2025

Before Algiers claimed his son as its doctor and high school namesake, Pierre Caliste Landry had already made history as the first Black mayor in the United States. https://ow.ly/N7VM50Xyme1

11/28/2025

River District developers inch closer to securing affordable housing amid uncertainty for the riverside development https://ow.ly/3Kw150XymAO

11/27/2025

Local barbershop, The Godbarber-NOLA, gives out free haircuts, stitch braids ahead of Thanksgiving https://ow.ly/n4lH50XyHxo

11/27/2025

Louisiana’s decision to kill its cornerstone coastal restoration project leaves the state without a clear plan as it faces some of the fastest rates of sea level rise on Earth. https://ow.ly/Y6mb50Xymh7

11/26/2025

During the Reconstruction era in Louisiana, Black, white and Jewish men briefly worked together for racial equality.

During the Reconstruction era in Louisiana, Black, white and Jewish men briefly worked together for racial equality in the Unification Movement.

11/26/2025

As the older generation of St. Gabriel continues to die of cancer and chronic disease, local activists maintain the fight for stricter emissions testing.

As the older generation of the Cancer Alley town St. Gabriel, Louisiana continues to die of cancer and chronic disease, local activists maintain the fight for stricter emissions testing.

11/25/2025

The ruling to grant bail to death row prisoner Jimmie Duncan is yet another chapter in a nearly three-decade legal odyssey that has spotlighted Louisiana’s troubling history with wrongful convictions. https://veritenews.org/2025/11/21/jimmie-duncan-granted-bail/

11/25/2025

Since President Donald Trump took office in January, promising mass deportations, federal immigration authorities have increasingly been conducting raids and effecting arrests in or near locations once seen as off-limits.

ICE agents spotted near two KIPP New Orleans schools have caused concerns, with worries heightened after news of 250 Border Patrol agents being sent to the area. https://veritenews.org/2025/11/21/new-orleans-schools-immigration-border-patrol/

11/25/2025

Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the pandemic.

Demand for home health care, including at-home hospice care, has skyrocketed since the pandemic. A New Orleans nonprofit is training people how to provide end-of-life care for dying relatives and community members.

11/24/2025

“The bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era, the Colfax massacre taught many lessons, including the lengths to which some opponents of Reconstruction would go to regain their accustomed authority."

Dozens of Black people were slaughtered in Colfax; no one was held accountable.

11/24/2025

It took two men – the Rev. Avery Hamilton and Dean Woods – to finally remove the “Riot” marker and replace it with one more truthful about the Colfax Massacre and honor its victims 150 years after the mass killing.

https://veritenews.org/2025/11/24/colfax-massacre-friendship-1873/

11/24/2025

With mass deportations a key policy priority for President Donald Trump, Republican-led state and local governments have taken aggressive steps to deliver.

Gov. Jeff Landry eliminated parole for prisoners arrested after Aug. 1, 2024, and tightened eligibility rules for those already in prison. Then he set all of that aside for one group: undocumented immigrants. Why? To have them deported.