The Lavender Cafe will start out as a pop-up shop, but the founder has plans to open up a brick-and-mortar location for the LGBTQ+ community.

As the district works to increase fill rates in schools, underenrolled campuses such as Landry might see changes.

At a community town hall hosted by the Big Easy Budget Coalition, community members debated how the city should spend its waning general fund — and argued that it shouldn't be on the police.

He played for several teams, from 1918 to 1931, winning pennants twice with the Atlantic City Bacharach Giants and once with the Baltimore Black Sox.

Tensions in St. Tammany rose after the Library Board of Control voted on a resolution to change the book collection guidelines and keep restricting access to seven young adult graphic novels.

As the district works to increase fill rates in schools, underenrolled campuses such as Landry might see changes.

Think you know New Orleans? Test your knowledge by taking our quiz on Mayor Moreno's proposed budget cuts.

The Black Schoolhouse will bring youth arts programming to a neighborhood lacking community arts centers.

The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.

Marino Casem took college football seriously. Wherever he coached or served as athletic director, he made his mark. “On the East Coast, football is a cultural experience,” he said. “In the Midwest, it’s a form of cannibalism. On the West Coast, it’s a tourist attraction. And in the South, football is religion, and Saturday is the holy day.” Casem spent more than three decades coaching and leading college athletics. He was head football coach at Alabama State, Alcorn State and Southern University, compiling a 159-93-8 record. He was Alcorn’s athletic director for 20 years and Southern’s for 13.

Min Khant Zaw, a Rohingya and Kaman activist and asylum seeker, had his life upended after spending seven weeks inside an ICE detention facility in Louisiana.

A coalition of organizations has mobilized in Tangipahoa Parish advance of the midterms to make sure as many parish residents as possible know about the inactive voter list and how to get off of it.

He helped set housing policy across the nation, working during the administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

A coalition of organizations has mobilized in Tangipahoa Parish advance of the midterms to make sure as many parish residents as possible know about the inactive voter list and how to get off of it.

Mayor Helena Moreno proposed that $5 million be cut from the city’s contribution to the largest shelter for people experiencing homelessness in New Orleans.

Elvis Brooks’ case was an egregious example of a wrongful conviction, civil rights attorneys said. But Louisiana’s attorney general maintains that Brooks and other exonerees are guilty — and therefore...

Mayor Helena Moreno proposed that $5 million be cut from the city’s contribution to the largest shelter for people experiencing homelessness in New Orleans.

The union says that Bricolage wrongfully fired a kindergarten teacher who had been at the school for a decade.

He was the grandson of New Orleans musician, songwriter and music publisher Clarence Williams.

For Davis to do well in the November Senate election, he will need to find a way to significantly increase turnout in traditional Democratic strongholds like New Orleans.

Moreno’s 2027 budget proposes cutting about 150 full-time positions and cutting operational budgets nearly across the board.

The England Authority Board of Commissioners is slated to discuss the planned ICE detention facility at a meeting on Thursday.

The union says that Bricolage wrongfully fired a kindergarten teacher who had been at the school for a decade.

Williams partnered with violinist Armand J. Piron to start a music publishing business that would became the country's leading Black-owned music publisher.

After spending years of listening to stories from fellow immigrants, this New Orleans-area artist has released a new album inspired by their experiences.

Duncan spent nearly three decades in prison before his murder case was finally overturned by the state Supreme Court. But this week, the DA’s office obtained a warrant to obtain a DNA sample from him. His attorneys are asking for the warrant to be thrown out.

Louisiana Freedom Summer volunteers were on the frontlines, challenging obstacles to voter registration.

Mukta Joshi is a reporter at Mississippi Today. She is spending a year as a New York Times Local Investigations fellow. Joseph Cranney is a reporter at Verite News. Both report for the Deep South Today Investigative Reporting Center in collaboration with The Times. The Mississippi Bureau of Investigation has completed its review of the Senatobia Police Department’s fatal shooting of a Black toddler and sent its findings to Attorney General Lynn Fitch, the department’s interim police chief said this week. Angelica Maze, the chief, said Fitch will decide when to release more information about the shooting of the toddler, 1-year-old Kohen Wiley.

A Louisiana Housing Corporation proposal, obtained by Verite News, would take federal money now used to provide rental assistance for thousands of formerly homeless people and put it into a planned 200-bed shelter. The proposal follows a Trump administration order to curtail support for ‘Housing First’ strategies for addressing homelessness.

Police targeted the saloon and others as part of a crackdown on New Orleans nightclubs considered breeding grounds for crime.

Privacy advocates argue the New Orleans Police Department should do more to increase transparency into how it uses drones.

Livingston Parish residents are speaking out against the construction of a carbon dioxide pipeline they say will bring risks right up to their backyards and near community schools.

Verite News, which is part of the Deep South Today nonprofit network of newsrooms, has been selected by Religion News Service to participate in the Atlas of