Considered New Orleans' top-notch Black vaudeville theater, the 2,000-seat Lyric was located in the French Quarter from 1919 ...

Environmentalists in St. James Parish say they feel left out after two council votes in support of the parish's petrochemical ...

Kermit Ruffins, owner of Kermit’s Tremé Mother-in-Law Lounge, is stepping down from managing the iconic New Orleans jazz bar.

When a New York physician was indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the ...

Located at 3940 Thalia St., the Gem “provided a first-class experience to Black patrons,” a 2019 Country Roads Magazine ...

Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center ...

The Orleans Parish School Board has declined, for now, an offer to settle a 2019 lawsuit against the city, saying it doesn’t ...

A panel of federal judges in New York considered whether to allow the transfer of Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk ...

Verite News editor-in-chief Terry Baquet spoke with scholar, Harvard University professor and columnist for The Atlantic ...

Maze, the soul and funk group that was beloved by New Orleans’ Black community, honored Frankie Beverly, who passed away in ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan.

Some artists and bands performed traditional Black Masking Indian music, which is driven by West African percussive rhythms, ...