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‘Everybody should have something to eat’: Months after immigration surge, volunteers continue food deliveries in Latino communities
Members of an informal network of food delivery drivers on the Northshore say that even after the end of Catahoula Crunch, some are still afraid to leave their homes, leading to increased food…
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8mWhite police chief in Mississippi regularly used racist slurs, private text messages reveal
Text exchanges obtained by Mississippi Today and The Times show that the chief of a beleaguered Mississippi police department, where a 1-year-old boy was shot by police last year, frequently sent racist messages.
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10mNew Orleans struggles to keep up with stray animal population amid budget talks
Amid budget cuts, other animal shelters are struggling to keep up with the growing stray animal population.
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4mBlack detective tasked with finding kidnapped white toddler in 1870s New Orleans
At the center of the disappearance is John Baptiste Jourdain, one of the first Black detectives in the U.S.
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15mTrump policies on the menu as New Orleans restaurants team up to aid ACLU of Louisiana
More than 20 local restaurants are prepping their menus to partner as ‘Chefs for Justice’ in bid to protect civil liberties, immigrant rights from Trump administration.
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16mCrescent City Farmers Market is ‘producers only.’ But some vendors raise questions about the origin of products.
In March, a group of Crescent City Farmers Market vendors accused a large new vendor of offering food it did not produce. The vendor, Mississippi-based Two Dog Farms, denies that it is violating the market’s producers-only policy.