On September 19, The Louisiana Weekly will celebrate its 99th anniversary of covering stories focused on New Orleans’ African-American community. Originally founded under the moniker The New Orleans ...

Since 1897, The New York Times has boasted that it publishes “All the News That’s Fit to Print.” That slogan, created by Adolph S. Ochs, the original owner, still appears on the masthead of The Times ...

(Special from becauseofthemwecan.com via Defender News Service) — Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett, a doctor with the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is leading efforts to develop ...

(Stateline) – Measles cases for the calendar year surpassed 4,000 for the first time in decades, with as many as five deaths ...

As the upcoming legislative session for 2027 approaches next spring, advocates for child care and maternal health are touring ...

McMeans asked the task force, which met on Monday, October 13, at the State Capitol, to take into account the $1.2 billion ...

Expanding that imagination means discovering what the familiar can become and this discovery is maximized by the Lafayette ...

The most recent Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Quarterly Report on Household Debt and Credit, reached a similar conclusion: credit card balances rose by $21 billion and stood at $1.26 trillion, ...

Second Chance Pathways, a two-year program that will prepare incarcerated individuals for new market demands, is set to begin at the start of the new year, and will be overseen by both the Parole ...

Louisiana will begin providing Medicaid-backed services at Elayn Hunt Correctional Center in St. Gabriel in early 2027, according to the state health department. The program will then be expanded to ...

Surrounded in the Oval Office by U.S. Treasury Department officials, business moguls and a half dozen children holding a banner reading, “Thank You for Trump Accounts,” the president said parents and ...

Legendary Southern University band director Dr. Isaac Greggs, the man who led the famed HBCU marching band for nearly four decades and gave the “Human Jukebox” its signature look, sound and marching ...