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Op-Ed: The Many, Many Problems With New Orleans’ Public Defender System
(CityLab) – The city’s chief public defender discusses persistent hurdles to adequately defending the poor in court. On September 3,...
(Blogged by @thefineauthor) – After a years-long hiatus, rapper Kendrick Lamar is back with his highly anticipated new album and...
(CityLab) – The city’s chief public defender discusses persistent hurdles to adequately defending the poor in court. On September 3,...
(TheNewOrleansAdvocate) – Two local residents were set to be inducted Friday into the National Black College Alumni Hall of Fame....
Aerial view of the city, Point and Royal Yacht Clubs and small craft harbour. Durban. KwaZulu Natal. South Africa. (AtlantaBlackStar)...
(TriceEdneyWire.com) – Though the National Park Service no longer gives crowd estimates, some who attended in 1995 said the crowd...
(Nola.com) – When New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu announced Thursday (Oct. 15) that he planned to fund a study of...
(Huffington Post) – It’s not easy, as an artist, to make your primary subject a certain sound. For example, the...
(WGNO.com) – New Orleans native and musician Troy Andrews–better known as Trombone Shorty–spent part of his day at the White...
(Fansided.com) – Calliope Var is a rapper from New Orleans’ Calliope projects in Louisiana. For his recent collaboration with Cam’ron...
(HipHopWired.com) – Dee-1 still refuses to water down his music, to the benefit of his fans and connoisseurs of Hip-Hop...
(EURWeb.com) – MC Lyte grants Cortney Rhodes with a $50,000 scholarship to attend Dillard University in New Orleans. The scholarship...