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The New Orleans Regional Transit Authority’s governing board, which is currently barred from conducting business due to having too few members, is one step closer to being able to meet again as a new appointee makes his way through the confirmation process. On Wednesday (Oct. 9), the New Orleans City Council’s Governmental Affairs Committee advanced Mitchell Guidry, Jr., the RTA’s former manager of planning and data, as a new member of the board…

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Until recently, three statues of Hispanic heroes stood on the Basin Street neutral ground.  
Simón Bolívar helped several countries gain independence from Spain in the early 19th century. Benito Juárez served as president of Mexico from 1858-1872.  Francisco Morazán served as president of the Federal Republic of Central America from 1830-1839.  These men had minimal connection to New Orleans. So why were they honored with statues?  The answer da…

The story behind the Hispanic heroes statues in New Orleans

Local Black-owned bookstore Baldwin and Co. brought college students, city leaders and community members together on Monday (Oct. 7) for a conversation about the state of civil rights in America as a part of former South Carolina state representative Bakari Sellers’ book tour. The event began with a “State of the Union” panel about issues facing young people in the United States, featuring students from Xavier University, Dillard University and …

Baldwin & Co. hosts Bakari Sellers to talk about new book ‘The Moment’

The New Orleans City Council kicked off the first day of its 2025 city budget hearings today (Oct. 8), hearing presentations from the Department of Finance and the city Chief Administrative Office on their annual goals and budgets, as well as updates on millages. A key theme throughout the first day was the need for the city to recruit, hire and retain more workers. The city has for years been losing personnel in key departments, notably includi…

City departments ask for more money to hire, retain employees in next year’s budget

A New Orleans resident was filmed defacing a pro-Palestinian mural on the corner of North Claiborne and Esplanade avenues last Wednesday night (Oct. 2) in a video that’s gone viral. “Happy Rosh Hashanah,” said Jakob Schanzer in the video — which was posted on Thursday (Oct. 3) —  as he spray painted over the mural. The mural features a character with green skin and pink eyes looking to the side. Palestinian flags are painted into the character’s…

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Storm clouds appear to be gathering over New Orleans City Hall as federal prosecutors systematically bring indictments in public corruption cases.  The most recent indictment was issued on Sept. 27, when city contractor Randy Farrell was accused of receiving bribes from electricians to obtain fraudulent building permits, and “conspired with others to offer bribes to public officials to thwart the investigation into his scheme.” While the persons…

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What is now the Lafitte Greenway — the linear park that runs through New Orleans from the French Quarter to Mid-City — was once a canal dug by Francisco Luis Hector, Barón de Carondelet in 1794. Francisco Luis Hector de Carondelet ordered the construction of the Carondelet Canal.  As the Spanish governor of Louisiana and West Florida, Carondelet ordered the construction of the 1.5 mile-long canal, called the Carondelet Canal, as a shipping corri…

The Carondelet Canal: A vital shipping channel from the 1790s to the 20th century

In this episode of Porch Poppin’, EJ Johnson discusses the local reaction to bigoted comments made by Louisiana Senator John Kennedy. READ MORE: Muslims and Arabs in New Orleans express outrage over Sen. John Kennedy’s comments at hate crime hearing  The post Porch Poppin’: New Orleans reacts to Sen. Kennedy’s Islamophobia appeared first on Verite News.

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A federal appellate court is set to hear oral arguments Monday in a civil rights lawsuit alleging a south Louisiana parish engaged in racist land-use policies to place polluting industries in majority-Black communities.

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On Tuesday, Louisiana will become the first state in the U.S. to categorize two widely used abortion pills as “controlled dangerous substances.”



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New Orleans and the U.S. Department of Justice filed a motion Friday in federal court to take steps to end long-standing federal oversight of the city’s police department.

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