Guided by the love and devotion of a dedicated Christian mother, Lena M. Wiley, young Joseph Douglas Wiley received his call to preach at the ripe old age of seven. “My spiritual journey started in ...

(Veritenews.org) – Calvin Duncan, the exonerated prisoner-turned-lawyer who scored a surprise victory in the Orleans Parish Criminal District Court clerk’s race last year, filed a federal suit against ...

(Veritenews.org) — A higher percentage of Black residents voted in Louisiana’s new majority-Black 6th Congressional District in the November 2024 election than those who were redistricted into ...

To obtain R2 status, Grambling will need to spend $5 million annually on research and confer at least 20 doctoral degrees ...

With the city’s Tricentennial Celebration coming to an end and the New Orleans Saints in the midst of a Super Bowl run, some Saints fans are reflecting on the flour de lis symbol’s association with ...

Pearlie Elloie never wanted to be a hero. She had no plans to be a symbol of the civil rights movement, and she sure didn’t plan on integrating one of the most prominent universities in the United ...

The Louisiana Weekly asked this question of several New Orleans funk musicians and the organizers of NOLA Funk Fest, set to ...

“It’s all just poison now,” Annette Williams, a grandmother of three in Flint, Mich., told a reporter from the British newspaper, The Guardian, recently, gazing at the Flint River, which she could see ...

(Special from University of California Santa Barbara and NorthStarNews Today) – Researchers are developing an insulin pill that could soon offer a pain-free blood sugar management option to people ...

The Southern Poverty Law Center has filed ethics complaints against two New Orleans-area district attorney’s offices for using fake subpoenas to pressure witnesses to talk to them. The complaints, ...

(NNPA Newswire) — With the Trump administration preparing to take office in January, plans across numerous policy areas are likely to significantly affect Black Americans. From proposed changes to ...

With little public scrutiny, the health insurance industry has joined forces with data brokers to vacuum up personal details about hundreds of millions of Ame-ricans, including, odds are, many readers ...