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Black educators fighting for equal pay in 1930s New Orleans sparked birth of influential teachers' union
Teacher salaries cut during the Great Depression were restored, but only for white educators. Black teachers demanded equal treatment.
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11mFrank Perez, founder of LGBT+ Archives Project, was a pillar of the queer community in New Orleans
Frank Perez, who helped catalog the history of queer communities throughout Louisiana, died after a bout with cancer at 57.
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3mWilliam G. Brown, Louisiana's first black state education superintendent, helped reform a failing system
Brown exposed problems with how Louisiana's public school system operated, then called for reform
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8mTrump’s ‘energy emergency’ could fast-track massive expansion of Plaquemines LNG export terminal
$18 billion project could damage 470 acres of wetlands in a parish already losing land at a rapid pace
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7mLouisiana among states losing the most film industry jobs in the country
Louisiana ranked fourth in total job loss in the film and television industry from 2024 to 2025.
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7mHow might the 2026 U.S. House midterms affect New Orleans?
Qualifying for all U.S. House races in Louisiana concluded this past week.