Black students and their families have long viewed the system used to rank colleges and universities with a jaundiced eye given its penchant for applying metrics that often relegate historically Black ...

Hurricane Harvey did everything people said it would do, and more. It either drowned or swallowed everything it touched in Corpus Christi, Houston, Beaumont, the gulf coast of Louisiana, and a bunch ...

We must hold President-Elect Trump and Congressional Republicans accountable. We cannot allow them to undo President Obama’s remarkable legacy. Like many Americans, my concerns with the course of the ...

(lailluminator.com) — Higher electricity bills are customary during a Louisiana summer, but 2025 has seen an especially sharp spike, reaching levels not seen since 2022. Except for January, the ...

The popular saying-‘There’s an app for that’ now holds true for 2013 Essence Festival goers, thanks to the New Orleans Tourism Marketing Corporation (NOTMC). NOTMC has teamed up with Essence Fest to ...

(Urban News Service) — After a two-year election campaign and weeks into his presidency, Africans still have no idea how Donald J. Trump plans to deal with this continent of 54 nations. Since the ...

Louisiana’s governor received a black eye in the international media last month, one which garnered few comments locally. Jindal boasted that he had brought the famed Viking Cruise Line to Louisiana ...

(Special from NorthStarNews Today) – A vitamin D deficiency may increase the chance of developing aggressive forms of prostate cancer for some men who are at high risk for the disease. Prostate cancer ...

A jury was selected and opening statements began last week in the Jefferson Parish trial of Ronald Gasser, 55, charged with second-degree murder in the Dec. 1, 2016 death of former NFL player and John ...

ThGreg Bright spent 27.5 years in prison before being exonerated in 2003. After proving his factual innocence, he began receiving wrongful conviction compensation from the state of Louisiana. Bright ...

In May, LSU’s first Black undergraduate student, Alexander Pierre Tureaud Jr., was awarded an LSU degree, 58 years after he first began to pursue that degree in 1953. Tureaud was presented with an ...

In a city that cherishes its history, St. Mary’s Academy in New Orleans East continues to cement its place in the Crescent City by celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. A Bold Beginning The ...