Considered New Orleans' top-notch Black vaudeville theater, the 2,000-seat Lyric was located in the French Quarter from 1919 ...

Environmentalists in St. James Parish say they feel left out after two council votes in support of the parish's petrochemical ...

Kermit Ruffins, owner of Kermit’s Tremé Mother-in-Law Lounge, is stepping down from managing the iconic New Orleans jazz bar.

When a New York physician was indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the ...

Rep. Patricia Moore, D-Monroe, at the Louisiana State Capitol building on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Credit: John Gray / Verite News Sign up for Verite's free, bi-weekly newsletter and get the New ...

Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center ...

Located at 3940 Thalia St., the Gem “provided a first-class experience to Black patrons,” a 2019 Country Roads Magazine ...

The Orleans Parish School Board has declined, for now, an offer to settle a 2019 lawsuit against the city, saying it doesn’t ...

Verite News editor-in-chief Terry Baquet spoke with scholar, Harvard University professor and columnist for The Atlantic ...

A panel of federal judges in New York considered whether to allow the transfer of Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk ...