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Months after aggressive law enforcement response, anti-Trump group returns to Pearl River
Pearl River Police arrested three people at a January protest against Trump's ICE enforcement campaign, then called in outside agencies to monitor a subsequent action in February. The organizing…
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New Orleans News Quiz: How a documentary about the surfing industry started a censorship battle in St. John Parish
Take our quiz on how censorship accusations got a canceled documentary screening rescheduled in St. John the Baptist Parish.
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7mLosing ground: Louisiana Legislature reversing Black political power
The history of Black citizens holding elected office in Louisiana is complex.
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Charles Nash, Louisiana's first Black congressman to take his seat
Charles Edmund Nash, a bricklayer by trade, became Louisiana's first Black man to actually serve in Congress. But, historians say, the Republican politician had little impact.
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Explainer: How did this year’s legislative session impact New Orleans and its residents?
Verite News reporter Katie Jane Fernelius breaks down the biggest questions coming out of this year’s legislative session.
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State’s first Black Josephite priest, John Plantevigne, was barred from saying Mass
In New Orleans, the Catholic Church would not let a man of color celebrate Mass in the early 1900s. As a result, the Rev. John Joseph Plantevigne died “a broken man with a broken heart.”