Theophile T. Allain, who helped​​ to establish Southern University in New Orleans in 1880, believed in building alliances between the races.

James Henry Ingraham asked a poignant question in the New Orleans Tribune in 1865: “We must ask for our rights as men. If we ...

Facing a $160 million deficit and an immediate cash-flow shortage, city leaders are now considering cuts. ‘Everything is on ...

FCC voted to set six-cent per minute caps on phone calls from prisons and jails. The rule never fully took effect. After ...

About 53,000 'able-bodied' SNAP recipients will have to lean on their local food banks as long as the shutdown persists, ...

District E voters will decide between Cyndi Nguyen and Jason Hughes, two longtime residents of the district with deep ties to the community, during a runoff election on Nov. 15.

Gray, convicted by a 10-2 jury vote, remains in prison five years after the Supreme Court ruled such verdicts ...

Tulane University students gathered across from Stern Hall last Friday (Oct. 24) to denounce a recent  decision to relocate ...

SNAP funding runs out at the end of October, and states are considering legal action and emergency funding to try to make up ...

A little-known state committee will meet Wednesday to determine whether the financially troubled city meets legal criteria ...

The federal civil rights suit was based on footage from in-classroom cameras, which will soon be required in special ...

Along with Harriet Tubman, Mary Church Terrell and Ida B. Wells, Harper co-founded the National Association of Colored Women ...