The Adult Education Center opened in 1965, offering tuition-free training that prepared Black women to integrate the city’s ...

A documentary centered on a small Mississippi River parish had been racking up awards, earning prizes at film festivals in ...

Louisiana lawmakers have advanced a Republican-backed map that would drop Louisiana to just one congressional district that ...

A previous effort to bring the ‘Field of Dreams’ stadium project to the 9th Ward was abandoned after the funds raised for it were depleted. In the subsequent years, projected construction costs have ...

The remaining majority-Black district in the proposal is essentially the same one U.S. Rep. Troy Carter won in 2022.

The May 16, 2026 statewide election is shaping up to be one of the most unusual ballots in recent memory. What would ...

The money for the immigration facility comes from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, not state dollars. But it is ...

U.S. Rep. Troy Carter called a town hall to discuss the state’s redistricting efforts. Civil rights advocates were in ...

AG Liz Murrill called the council’s moves, taken in response to a new state law that abolished the clerk’s office won by ...

When cleaning crews dug deep into New Orleans’ clogged drains in 2018, they pulled up leaves, mud — and 46 tons of Mardi Gras ...

A 1961 mugshot of Sandra Nixon Thomas following an arrest for "Breach of Peace" in Jackson, Miss. She spent 40 days in jail. Credit: Civil Rights Movement Archive Sign up for Verite's free daily ...

Eleventh grader Zoë Rodriguez has only been attending New Harmony High School for a few months, but she’s already thinking about where she’ll have to transfer for his senior year. It’s not by choice.