Poet Laureate Alison Pelegrin to Use $50,000 Prize to Bring Poetry to Prisons, Community Centers New Orleans / Aug. 12, 2024 — The Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities (LEH) is thrilled to announce that the Academy of American Poets (AAP) has awarded Louisiana’s Alison Pelegrin a Poet Laureate Fellowship. The Academy’s Poet Laureate Fellowship, which is […]
Former State Representative Randal Gaines is preparing to settle into his new offices in Baton Rouge as head of Louisiana's Democratic Party only because he aligned himself with the Blue Reboot reform movement. Created to bring new leadership to Louisiana's Democratic Party, Blue Reboot played a decisive role in the recent Democratic elections for parish-level […]
Louisiana is one of 27 states where the death penalty is still the rule of law. State Rep. Kyle Green Jr., D-Marrero, is strongly advocating for legislation to change that equation. He's authored HB 228 which eliminates the death penalty in Louisiana as a possible punishment for the offense of first degree murder, for degree […]
The campaign to recall Mayor LaToya Cantrell is a newly-christened ship navigating uncharted waters. Campaign leaders knew they could harness the raw unrest and concerns about crime felt by so many citizens across all neighborhoods. Thousands of eager participants unafraid of potential backlash from the Cantrell administration lined up to fill out the petitions correctly, […]
Led by recall campaign leaders Belden Batiste and Eileen Carter, ten boxes of petitions believed to be signed by valid Orleans Parish registered voters who want to force a vote on Mayor LaToya Cantrell's future were delivered to Registrar of Voters Dr. Sandra Wilson Wednesday afternoon (February 22) less than an hour prior to the […]
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 […]
It was a beautiful Sunday morning in Audubon Park when I ran into businesswoman Katie Darling, the Democrat running for Congress in LouisianaÂ’s 1st Congressional District.
In what must be called a breath of fresh air, a new Louisiana Senate seven member advisory panel is launching a long-overdue investigation surrounding complaints that numerous members of the Louisiana State Police (LSP) have historically used excessive force against Black men. The swift action by State Senate President Page Cortez to establish the Senate […]
When the Louisiana Legislature meets next February 1, 2022 to finalize new maps of state house, senate and congressional districts, neither the Republican-controlled legislature nor Democratic Governor John Bel Edwards will automatically have the upper hand. The legislature will propose the maps but Governor Edwards must sign them into law. Hence, there will be plenty […]
Governor John Bel Edwards announced today that a Louisiana child who was less than one-year-old died this week from COVID-19. This tragic case adds to the growing number of COVID death toll being reported in the state. “Today, the Louisiana Department of Health confirms the death of a child under the age of 1 – […]
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