75 performance slots for ReverbNation artists/bands that submit their RPK.
Lyman is best known as the producer and creator of the hugely successful Vans Warped Tour, the longest running traveling music and extreme sports festival in the world while Koch's eOne Music is the largest independent record company in the U.S.
A panel discussion convened to examine the multifaceted issue of the business of incarceration in Louisiana.
A public forum centered on Louisiana's school choice movement hosted by the National Association of Black Journalists and New Orleans Association of Black Journalists.
Widely considered one of the nation's worst school district for years, New Orleans' schools have been showing remarkable academic gains, but not everyone is convinced that the improved test scores tell the whole story of the school district.
A series of NAM-sponsored forums across the south east focused on connecting parents to the education reform movement.
A New Orleans native, Dobard is a career educator and graduate of Southern University.
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and other National, State and Local Leaders Praise Appointment.
The packed audience of New Orleans Who's Who showed their appreciation as soon as the credits began rolling with a round of applause, especially when Blanchard and Hemmingway names rolled across the screen.
The Louisiana Education Reform Plan, addresses standards and assessments, the collection and use of data, school turnaround strategies, and effective support for teachers and school leaders.
The City will provide affordable gap financing in the form of a "soft second" mortgage for two programs.
Permanent Housing Solutions Sought for Over 100 Individuals.
Federal, city and non-profit partnership helps homeowners make green retrofits federal investment will create local jobs.
The State must add letter grades that separately measure key components of school performance as part of a school report card.
The Revised plan doubles funded facilities through $242 million in savings and new revenue while increasing the number of funded projects in the next phase of the plan from 23 to 52 facilities.
The free festival will feature local, national, and international acts from places as far as Canada, London, and Guadeloupe. featuring various genre of music...
Major League Baseball and City of New Orleans break ground on $5.3 million project to build facility at Wesley Barrow Stadium to provide free baseball and softball instruction.
S.O.S NOLA: Saving Our Sons" campaign involves prevention, intervention, interdiction, prosecution, rehabilitation, and re-entry as the model to reduce violence in the community.
Just six years after Hurricane Katrina, Southern Business & Development Magazine called New Orleans the "Co-Major Market of the Year." Forbes ranked it No. 2 on its 2011 list of Best Cities for Job Growth.
New study shows company's economic impact of nearly $1 billion in New Orleans area.
Six years after Hurricane Katrina robbed seniors of their homes ways of life, family, faith and community have offset government failures to help them go on.
Political power has shifted to whites, but blacks have not given up their struggle for a voice — and justice.
So now with a large segment of the community disinterested in voting, how do we "demand" anything ... We can be and are being ignored.
As New Orleans' only all-boys public charter school, we are unwavering in our commitment to the most demanding demographic in America.
Major League Baseball and City of New Orleans Break Ground on $5.3 Million Project to Build Facility at Wesley Barrow Stadium to Provide Free Baseball and Softball Instruction.
New Orleans Clerk of Court Dale Atkins: "Regina Bartholomew is the kind of attorney that lawyers admire. She has broad courtroom experience, for both plaintiffs and defendants, small businesses and private persons."
Urgent Care Services Began in July. First Patient Arrived 37 minutes after opening.
NAREB grapple with impact of foreclosures, redefined mortgage lending and homeownership prospects for Black Americans and other minority groups.
Conference brings together music industry personnel from across the country.
Participants are selected based on proven leadership in their professions and in their communities.
Rodrick Miller, President & CEO of New Orleans Business Alliance to Deliver Keynote Address at AEDF's Annual Luncheon.
Team to Focus on Murder Reduction and Customer Service Improvements.
Norman Rockwell Painting, "The Problem We All Live With," Hung in the White House.
The neighborhood takes its name from Claude Tremé, the Frenchman who acquired, subdivided, and sold his holdings ... primarily to free people of color including craftsmen, musicians, and Haitian Creoles.
The facility will also support the College of Business & Public Administration's accreditation plan by allowing the faculty to deliver more practical teaching, research excellence, community service, and meet other accreditation requirements.
The New Orleans Regional Business Park alone boasts over 7,000 acres of commercial real estate that is directly connected to interstate, rail and water transportation.
Did New Orleans Media Contribute to Police Violence After Hurricane Katrina?
The 7.8-acre property, first cited for blight in August 2008, has long been an environmental concern in the Algiers community.
After a NAM-organized meeting on June 21, to discuss redistricting in New Orleans, ethnic media organizations prepared this open letter to the Times Picayune and the Press Club of New Orleans.
At a June 21 meeting, news organizations discussed how to assure that ethnic minorities don't lose ground as post-Katrina political maps are drawn.
Advocacy organization still holds hope that DOJ will preserve "Communities of Interest" in New Orleans east and the Lower 9th Ward
This rearranging of political boundaries to accommodate the shifts in growing populations will impact elections and the resulting governmental policy outcomes for the next ten years
While this trip is designed to be a history lesson, it is also very much intended to coach these youth on overall life skills, from conflict resolution to making good decisions.
It is just this sort of disregard for the rights of minority citizens that has subjected Louisiana to heightened scrutiny of its redistricting plans (both federal and state) under the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
The Class of 2011 is the first to graduate in the newly built state-of-the-art campus following the damage caused to the old buildings since hurricane Katrina.
The Love Doctor Column: So, yeah, "Green" can include recycling, but real "Green" would mean not having to recycle it in the first place because it was never made ...
The Bayou Boogaloo is a free admission music festival in Mid City, the heart of the City of New Orleans, held on the banks of the beautiful and historic Bayou St. John.
XUP is a Catholic college preparatory school open to female students in 7th thru 12th grades which has been recognized twice as an Exemplary Secondary School of Excellence by the U.S. Department of Education.
Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center and Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Handbook to Assist in the Development of Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance.
Perry served on Mayor-Elect Mitch Landrieu's Transition Team as the co-chair of the Education Taskforce, helping to develop a set of recommendations that help form Mayor Landrieu's education agenda.
Patrice A. Williams-Smith will serve as new CEO.
As the new City's Criminal Justice Commissioner, former Councilman James Carter will administer current U.S. Department of Justice grants and coordinate the city's criminal justice strategy.
Governor Jindal's no show at the ground breaking of one of his biggest pet projects is much more than just a scheduling conflict.
Strategically positioned to share facilities, services and innovation with the nearby Veterans Administration Medical Center, the $1.2 billion teaching hospital will occupy 37 acres in the Biosciences District.
When New Orleans was the state's largest city, it always had the political sway... New Orleans' losses in the redistricting battle will only be exacerbated in the upcoming legislative sessions.
The Regional Transit Commission, however, said that while use is climbing, overall ridership is still down almost two-thirds from where it was prior to the flood. Current wait time now for most lines is 20 to 40 minutes while before Katrina that figure was 10 minutes.
Caseptla Bailey and Catrina Wallace were active in the campaign to support the Jena 6. Their door was broken down by police while they slept.
"The city needs about twice as many grocery stores as it currently has just to be at the national average."
Volunteers trimmed trees along the lagoon, and in the process, revealed breathtaking scenery that was not visible before. Volunteers also trimmed trees and removed remnants of damaged fences near the tennis courts.
Xavier will award honorary degrees to businesswoman and philanthropist Camille Hank Cosby, BET Holdings Chair and CEO Debra Lee, and Xavierite Olympic medalist and businessman Herbert Douglas.
S.W. Green House, the Mid-City home of an early 20th century Black millionaire, is lifted from its site out of the footprint of the new LSU/VA Hospital.
GYBP is a youth-led social enterprise focusing on the production and sale of biodiesel fuel as a means of educating and developing leadership and social entrepreneurship in young people, ages 16-24, as part of a "Green Collar" workforce.
The post-Katrina school boast of 31 state-of-the-art classrooms, SMART Boards, DVD's and televisions and touch enabled computers.
Fashion Week NOLA was created to spotlight the talents and collections of designers, boutiques, make-up artistry, hair styling and models through a series of runway shows, exhibits & chic parties.
Police Chief Ron Serpas plans Hispanic, Vietnamese outreach with El Protector program.
"Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is a fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial." Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
As we celebrate the life of Dr. King, let us realize the challenges that still face those who seek a world of justice and peace.
King confronted uncomfortable issues, instead of avoiding them. His commitment to racial justice was never buried under a call for racial harmony...
A series of articles focusing on senior citizens of the Gulf and how they have had to face significant changes in their way of life due to Hurricane Katrina and the BP oil spill.
Vietnamese fishermen in New Orleans East call attention to problems with the BP claims process.
ENONAC is a conglomeration of various neighborhoods in eastern New Orleans with a mission to empower the residents and the businesses of the Eastern New Orleans community.
The vision of the working groups is to ensure that New Orleans East is a vibrant, diverse and safe community that embraces innovation, new technologies, environmental sustainability and collaboration.
Stephanie Jordan, Germaine Bazzle, Leah Chase, and the Music Alive Ensemble performed to a wild and cheering crowd at the University of New Orleans Performing Arts Center.
Coaxum was President of the Great Southern Region's Black McDonald's Operators Association and was recently appointed Chairman of the NOLA Business Alliance Board.
Unemployment rates remain higher for Latino immigrants, many of whom came to rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.
Local school officials, families and community members have the right to see their schools returned, says BESE member Louella Givens.
The Louisiana Music Hall of Fame inducted Harold Battiste, Wardell Quezergue, Larry McKinley, Kidd Jordan and James "Sugarboy" Crawford as 2010 honorees.
This marks the third rate decrease for Entergy New Orleans customers in the last three years.
The Black Panthers Take a Stand in New Orleans... Three to four hundred emotionally charged young Negroes had stationed themselves between the police and the Panther group.
Advocacy Groups claim that LDE's systemic failures to ensure that students with disabilities have equal access to educational services and are protected from discrimination.
Program offers support during trying times for growing urban businesses. Since its inception in 2005, 191 inner city companies and 150 equity providers have participated.
Mock Trial Center to bear the name of New Orleans' Civil Rights Legend Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr.; first African American elected to the Louisiana Supreme Court.
National voter engagement expert Melanie Campbell offers an analysis on Black voter turnout during the recent Mid-Term Election.
Urban farming projects stepping up to serve local communities have to navigate through environmental hazards and bureaucratic red tape.
What one sees at Home Depot, at Lowe's and on the corners of the city of New Orleans's does not represent the reality experienced daily by immigrants that help rebuild New Orleans after Katrina and Torres-Tama revealed this in a special presentation on the ordeal of the Latinos.
The Neighborhood Development Foundation (NDF) trains clients to be smart home owners and provides advice on financial issues. Special columnist Kathy Taylor profiles NDF's CEO Fred Johnson.
Southern University is one among the Historically Black Colleges in Louisiana to receive federal funds.
3-Day Festival has over $170 Million Economic Impact Annually. The Essence Music Festival is the largest of its kind in the United States — celebrating contemporary African-American music and culture.
The National Coalition launches its black women's roundtable "Healthy, Wealthy & Wise" National Empowerment Tour.
The highlight of the day was a visit from NFC Pro Hall of Famer and former Saints player, Rickey Jackson, who enthusiastically posed for pictures and signed autographs.
Dr. Ernest Johnson, an attorney and president of the Louisiana NAACP said he is monitoring the tasing matter.
"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.
"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.
