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

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

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.

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

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

Dozens of unionized nurses at University Medical Center gathered Monday (June 16) to protest an alleged attempt by the ...

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.

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

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Chevron, Exxon and other oil and gas companies that lawsuits seeking compensation ...