Harold X. Evans, the New Orleans actor and stage director known as the "Dean of Black Theater," has died. He was 79.

In November 1960, three 6-year-old Black girls climbed 18 steps into history, forever changing the face of American education ...

Verite News is excited to announce that Blanca Méndez has joined our growing newsroom in the newly created position of ...

On Thursday, many in New Orleans will be celebrating the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth, which was recognized as a federal ...

Behind the effort to bring the skulls of 19 Black New Orleanians, held in Germany for more than 150 years, back home.

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The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 84 people unlawfully in the country during a raid at a southwest ...

A judge vacated Duncan’s murder conviction in April after his legal team argued that it was based on junk science.

Sheila Craig's Uptown community was tight-knit and supportive. She hasn't found one like it since she left New Orleans.

A group of approximately 20 people gathered outside of an immigration check-in facility in St. Charles Parish for the second ...

Humbles was barely 18 when she was selected to be on the first Freedom Ride bus, which a white mob firebombed in Alabama.