An LSU audit aimed at measuring how completely Louisiana’s cancer incidence database has counted new cancer cases around a controversial manufacturer in St. John the Baptist Parish concludes that the Louisiana Tumor Registry appears to have found all “reportable” cases
A federal judge has dismissed the lawsuit filed by David Acosta and 22 other St. John the Baptist Parish residents charging that chloroprene air pollution from the Denka chemical plant in Reserve caused them difficulty breathing, headaches, hair loss, heart
A third name was proposed for Lee Circle, not what GNOICC has proposed. The New Orleans City Council Street Renaming Commission settled Wednesday night on its final recommendation for the traffic circle that once hosted a statue of Confederate Gen.
Over 200 years ago, a free Black man named Andrew Durnford, operated a sugar plantation where he used slaves but paid them during the Civil War and freed them after Emancipation. This plantation was across the Mississippi in Plaquemines Parish.
This letter was written by Barbara Washington
This letter was written by Ms. Sharon Lavigne:
In the Advocate today, Cal Thomas, a conservative Op Ed writer, wrote on systemic racism. Second only to his fixation on “climate change” is President Biden’s focus on “systemic racism.” In addition to reinstating mandatory race theory training for federal
Standing in front of the pews of Broadmoor Community Church in New Orleans, environmental advocates gathered Tuesday morning to oppose the $1.25 billion expansion of plastics producer Shintech Louisiana’s plant in Iberville Parish, part of Louisiana’s growing industrial corridor along
Many people still don’t know that ‘New Orleans’ was already a place, a place with a name, before the first Europeans set sail for the area. Jeffery U. Darrensbourg, Ph.D., Tribal Councilperson and enrolled member of the Atakapa-Ishak Nation First,
The magnitude of the layered implications of the traumatic events of January 6, 2021 will most certainly be analyzed for decades to come. The questions of who, why and how will be processed and filtered through many different leading to