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

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

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

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

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

The New Orleans City Council approved an ordinance on Thursday (May 8) that will protect sex workers from arrest and prosecution for prostitution when they have reported crimes committed against them ...

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 ...

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