"The Love Doctor" penned an open letter to HUD Secretary Donovan seeking relief for Katrina survivors from the court ruled discriminatory practice of the Road Home Program.
At approximately 355,000, the city's population remains more than 100,000 lower than its pre-Katrina number, and many counted in the current population are among the tens of thousands who moved here post-Katrina.
The 5th Anniversary of the devastation has come and gone, and many in New Orleans' African-American community see disparity in efforts to rebuilding — even as they remain engaged in the struggle.
Unlike some ethnic groups, the Vietnamese community reinvented itself after the hurricane — and learned lessons that are proving critical to its post-BP survival....
The Love Doctor Column exams the role of a "good man" in the age of the independent women.
Puente has made use of volunteers from across the US, utilizing national support to help with local organizing, ... including a Human Rights Summer modeled after the civil rights movements' Freedom Summer.
The Plan would transfer governance and control of all public schools into the hands of local community parents and residents.
Five years after Katrina, tens of thousands of homes in New Orleans remain vacant or blighted. Tens of thousands of African American children who were in the public schools have not made it back, nor have their parents.
In New York City, where people of color make up about half of the population, 80% of the NYPD stops were of blacks and Latinos.
A weekly radio show which focuses on issues related to quality public education. This week Dr. Sanders speaks with Linda Johnson, member of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education which oversees public education in Louisiana.
Feelings of the Essence Music Festival and what it means to be truly New Orleans.
In New Orleans being Latino and finding affordable healthcare can be difficult. However, there are many health care providers not known to the general public. Jambalaya News investigates...
Houma Native Americans of south Louisiana face cultural extinction as the BP oil spill moves ever closer to their fragile cities and villages.
80,000 plus residents of predominantly Black neighborhoods to get first hospital post-Katrina.
The importance of developing the future through our youth. Ngoc Lan Thoi Bao (New Orleans Times) discusses an important Vietnamese American initiative happening today.
Xavier, the nation's only Black & Catholic University has long enjoyed a solid reputation for its excellence.
Did a Racist Coup in a Northern Louisiana Town Overthrow its Black Mayor and Police Chief?
Shockingly, a six year old child is handcuffed in an area elementary school.
Levees.org commissioned study disproves suggestions that improving the levee system is a poor investment of federal funds.
Review of the "You Don't Know What Love Is" CD
A weekly radio show which focuses on issues related to quality public education. This week Dr. Sanders speaks with Linda Johnson, member of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education which oversees public education in Louisiana.
Six New Orleans Police Charged in Post-Katrina Killings, But Activists Say Deeper Change is Needed
Introducing New Orleans to the exciting Miller-McCoy Academy for Mathematics and Business.
In New Orleans being Latino and finding affordable healthcare can be difficult. However, there are many health care providers not known to the general public. Jambalaya News investigates...
For the past 16 years The Mother-In-Law Lounge has been a staple of New Orleans culture. However, following an accident this beacon of bohemia in the Treme district looks almost certain to close.
In another depressing development tar balls are found in the Lake Pontchartrain Basin.
A weekly radio show which focuses on issues related to quality public education. This week Dr. Sanders speaks with former federal Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch about fundamental problems with charter schools in America.
Capt Bobby Warren, Petty Officer Nathan and Writer David Hobbs explore the Louisiana Gulf Coast while discussing and viewing the effects of the BP Oil Spill. A multimedia experience...
MAAFA — a Swahili term — is a community-wide commemoration which honors the memory of the millions of African people and their descendants who suffered or perished during the period of African capture and enslavement in America.
Black fishermen voice their complaints of BP.
Every evening young musicians maintain the tradition of New Orleans street performance. However, recently these same musicians have been harassed by police and a cabal of wealthy residents.
In advocating for Vietnamese American fishermen on the Gulf Coast, NOLA Beez editorial staff was threatened with arrest by BP. And that was just the beginning...
For centuries the Houma Native Americans have fished and lived off the coastal lands and waters of the Gulf south. United Houma Nation Chief Brenda Dardar Robichaux speaks with NOLA Beez about the effects of the BP oil spill on the Houma.
The first study of the Mississippi River Delta as a capital asset concludes restoring wetlands would produce $62 billion in annual benefits.
A trip by NOLA Beez to the Gulf Coast sheds light on a group of Vietnamese fishermen and the land and water of south Louisiana.
Known universally in Louisiana's Cajun/Zydeco world simply as "Buckwheat" Grammy award winner Stanley Dural Jr. talks with The Louisiana Weekly about his life and music.
Since Hurricane Katrina there has been a lack of grocery services in our inner-city neighborhoods. Now a new co-op supermarket is opening, one that will bring fresh, healthy food and local produce to the community.
Award-winning documentary Faubourg Tremé tells the story of the oldest African-American neighborhood in America and reveals its historical role as the home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment.
On May 17th, Mayor Landrieu, New Orleans Police Superintendent Serpas, Representatives from the U.S. Dept. of Justice and community members held a frank discussion of a reform of the NOPD instigated by the Mayor's office and the DOJ. Issues of racial profiling, criminal justice, police brutality and political corruption were also discussed.
New Orleans Agenda Publisher Vincent Sylvain talks about the significance of last week's press conference with Mayor Landrieu and Police Chief Ronal Serpas in this week's Majority View, a political roundtable on New Orleans politics.
On the wake of Arizona's SB1070, a new Louisiana House bill is stirring up controversy by calling for fines and legal penalities for undocumented immigrants and those who "harbor" or "shelter" them.
Louisiana's minority fishermen are having a tough time eeking out a living. A local non-profit financial institition is offering loans and business counseling to under-capitalized fisheries to help sustain their operations.
Historically black colleges are struggling to survive and our politicians are failing to provide them support. The media have also repeatedly ignored this crisis in African American higher education, commentator Alvin Chambliss argues.
Frustrated with residents' inability to get answers from city leaders, advocate Vanessa Geringer has filed a formal complaint, asking for the whereabouts of recovery dollars for the Lower Ninth Ward.
As many immigrant workers, mostly Latinos, started migrating to New Orleans after Katrina, Sheriff Normand says that the local police department was not prepared for its security impact on the city.
In Vietnam, the Lunar New Year is the biggest national holiday. All of the banks, private and government offices are closed for three days.
Evacuated by boat, helicopter and bus, displaced senior citizens have many stories to tell. The scars of Hurricane Katrina remain, and most of them lost everything, but all are grateful to be back.
After more than four years of this experiment in New Orleans, our public schools look much like they did pre-Hurricane Katrina.
The Loyola University Institute of Politics picked a former white mayor to speak on Black politics.
Gentilly Community Groups Sponsor Mayoral Debate at Dillard University to Discuss Neighborhood Issues.
January 16, 2010 is enshrined in New Orleans pro football history, and in this town, pro football affects a lot more than morale.
A new online collaborative project brings together six ethnic media, which represent New Orleans' diverse population, to provide hyperlocal stories from African American, Latino, Asian, and other ethnic groups.
Conservative televangelist Pat Robertson said that the devastating earthquake in Haiti is evidence that the small Black nation has been "cursed" for making "a pact with the devil."
Hoping that a new VA hospital will create more jobs for the public, the radio ad urges LSU to give up a site planned for its teaching hospital and instead give it to the Department of Veterans Affairs.
New Orleans could potentially go from what Mayor Ray Nagin described as a "Chocolate City" to a place where Black concerns will be addressed by a white mayor.
Among the cities studied, the highest probability for an African-American male being murdered before he reached 45 was in Washington, D.C. and the lowest was in Brooklyn, N.Y.
Once considered gastronomically challenging, as it includes cow or chicken's tendons, bone marrows and ligaments, phở bò is now a hearty dish for many Americans.
"You can say we chased Hurricane Katrina to see what she had left us. Believe me, she left us a lot of work," said Jaime, a Honduran immigrant worker...
A new Oxfam America report showed that the two groups are willing to work together to bridge their differences and rebuild the city after Katrina...
As the decennial census looms, Latino immigrants in New Orleans are still uncertain to participate. Some, however, remain hopeful that census may bring opportunities.
During the skit, the only student arrested was the sole Black student. He was pinned to the ground with his hands behind his back by what appears to be another student dressed as a police detective.
After Hurricane Katrina flooded the restaurant, the Southern Foodways Alliance raised $200,000 to help rebuild Willie Mae's Scotch House, which reopened in April 2007.
This summer, Ricardo Rivera, 19, will work at Morgan Stanley's institutional securities and IT department. He was also invited to intern at Goldman Sachs in New York.
On November 18, 2009, U.S. District Judge Stanwood Duval ruled that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' "lassitude and failure to fulfill its duties resulted in a catastrophic loss of human life and property in unprecedented proportions."
With the major public hospital still shuttered four years after Katrina, an innovative array of clinics have sprung up to fill the void, offering affordable health care plan and access for the uninsured.
Many locals danced, laughed and cried about being back home just to have a po-boy sandwich, and all of these things tied into the city's effort to celebrate and revitalize New Orleans.
"I could not believe the audacity of the city's former recovery czar. He secured the job with New Orleans based on empty promises and an embellished resume," the author said.
In this moving production, Robert Hillary King, Albert Woodfox and Herman Wallace, who organized a prison protest against the depressed conditions at Angola State Penitentiary. These inmates were later accused of the murder of a prison guard and placed in solitary confinement.
"The citizens of New Orleans want a candidate that can solve the crime problem; create economic opportunity; somebody that's fair; that they can trust and someone that's honest — I am that candidate for mayor," John Georges said.
