“I wonder where in Georgia Bob Dean lives,” mused Westbank security guard Joseph Savona, the son of Grace Ann Savona – one of the 843 former nursing home residents Bob Dean shoe-horned into an ill-equipped, under-staffed Independence, Louisiana warehouse in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida three years ago this week. Conditions in the warehouse were […]
New Orleans, LA, June 27, 2024— The Louisiana Abortion Fund released the following statement in response to the Supreme Court’s limited ruling: “The Supreme Court’s limited ruling allowing for abortions to take place in Idaho for the time being under the Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act is cold comfort to the millions of birthing people […]
Odyssey House Louisiana (OHL) now has a new federally qualified one-stop-shop primary and behavioral health care center due to a $1 million appropriation spearheaded by Congressman Troy Carter (LA-2). Carter along with various partnering agencies and individuals – cut the ribbon to open the new clinic in the Lafitte-Treme neighborhood on Tuesday, April 23. While introducing […]
The 2024 Sugarplum Ball, presented by Lemoine and themed How Sweet It Is, will be held at Mardi Gras Worlds River City Ballroom Saturday, March 23 On the evening of Saturday, March 23, friends and supporters of Childrens Hospital New Orleans will celebrate the 42nd annual Sugarplum Ball, entitled How Sweet It Is. The fundraiser, presented by LEMOINE, […]
On Tuesday, the New Orleans Health Department announced a new program that will provide new mothers and their infants with additional support after birth. The Families Connect New Orleans program will offer free home visits from registered nurses to parents in New Orleans in order to ensure they have access to the resources they need.
Reproductive rights advocates and community members will gather Saturday, May 27 to celebrate the Louisiana Abortion Funds (LAAFs) new chapter. Formerly known as the New Orleans Abortion Fund, the re-energized fund is committed to reproductive justice the rights of all to determine if or when they will have children and the right to live […]
Seven high school students from Travis Hill School, the school inside the New Orleans juvenile jail (JJIC), entered a contest sponsored by the Aspen Institute and Bezos Family Foundation. The project was to come up with solutions to major problems facing the city. The Travis Hill students solution was addressing mental health, because they see […]
Racial health disparities still exist for Black women who have recently become mothers and their newborns. New research published in January 2023 by the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that the richest mothers and their newborns are the most likely to survive the year after childbirth except when the child is black. The study […]
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently proposed policy revisions which will more reasonably protect blood recipients while respecting would-be donors. Though still not fully grounded in data, the revised policies proposed are a step in the right direction and will help save lives.
In 2018 Sharon Lavigne was just an every-day special education teacher at St. James High School who was tired of the foul odors in her St. James Parish neighborhood when she decided to make the leap to environmental justice advocate. When my daughter told me that a $1.2 billion plant might be built two miles […]
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