ExxonMobil acknowledged that two of its refineries were damaged, and there was an unrelated pipeline leak. 

Lead expert David Rosner to ThinkProgress: “The rest of the country basically saw it as an idiosyncratic thing, affecting just a few Black kids and Hispanic kids and therefore unimportant.”

New Orleans-based journalist Deborah Cotton died this week from wounds sustained during a 2013 shooting. Her new, posthumously published essay argues that incarcerating crime victims who won’t testify feeds distrust between prosecutors and communities of color.

Mayor Mitch Landrieu: “We can remember these divisive chapters in our history in a museum or other facility where they can be put in context—and that’s where these statues belong.”

Panelists talked about the dance music genre’s history and prominent artists at South by Southwest.

Duke—a former Ku Klux Klan leader, current Senate candidate and Donald Trump supporter—railed against the Black Lives Matter movement and Jews during a controversial debate appearance at Dillard University, an historically Black institution.

Quess Moore was threatened after a group he’s involved in, Take Em Down NOLA, attempted to remove an Andrew Jackson monument over the weekend.

The singer wrote about a recent experience at a concert where a group of White women demanded she and her family sit down—then hit her with a lime.

The New Orleans bounce music icon and reality TV star received a sentence of three years probation and a fine of $35,000 for Section 8 voucher fraud. A new Pitchfork article examines the housing problems that underwrote Big Freedia’s conviction.

Protestors from different movements came together in New Orleans to call for social justice to the region, which is still recovering from severe floods.

The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights examined body-worn camera policies in 50 municipalities. It was not impressed.

Groups are calling the proposal for a refurbished gas plant in the predominantly Black community an “environmental injustice.”

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Twenty jurisdictions will receive funding to reduce racial and ethnic disparities and shrink jail populations across the nation.

On the 30th anniversary of the first national celebration of MLK Day, activists and celebs take to the streets and the stage to strengthen Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s legacy.

The event features commentary from Sonia Sanchez and Dr. Cornel West. 

As the nation turns its eyes to New Orleans, the president visits the city and talks about the road to recovery.

A stark, by-the-numbers look at race and recovery in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina.

To dovetail with the 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the new five-part opera ”Echohybridity” will be performed in New Orleans.