Known as the Thompson Sisters, Alice, Jean and Shirley were on the front lines of the Civil Rights Movement. They ...

Dozens of protesters gathered outside of the Hale Boggs Federal Building on Monday (June 23) to express opposition to the ...

For many of these communities, disaster strikes twice: first from the storm, and again from the systems meant to help them ...

When Jemima Joél Brady thinks of growing up in Algiers, she remembers neighborhood kids wearing bright yellow polos and ...

Bartholomew was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991; the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1998; and the Louisiana ...

Harold X. Evans, the New Orleans actor and stage director known as the "Dean of Black Theater," has died. He was 79.

With a “creamy” soprano opera voice, Annabelle Bernard broke racial barriers at home and abroad during her career that ...

A new law gives economic development officials more power to change the state’s film tax credit program. A law enacting new ...

Sen. Bernie Sanders is asking Sen. Bill Cassidy, the Republican chair of the health committee, to investigate Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s recent decision to fire all 17 members of the ...