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A southeast Louisiana school board voted on Thursday to shut down a predominantly Black elementary school adjacent to a ...

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More than a hundred protestors gathered at Lafayette Square on Wednesday night (Nov. 6) to protest Donald Trump’s victory in ...

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New Orleans voters on Tuesday (Nov. 5) approved two new amendments to the city’s charter: one that will add a “workers’ bill ...

Almost three decades after redistricting forced him out of the U.S. House of Representatives, Cleo Fields will return to ...

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