Johnny Angel, a barber and a musician, came to New Orleans 20 years ago. He felt things were going great for him, until the COVID-19 pandemic hit.
“Well COVID affected the city and not just me....
Devin Cruice, Maroon Minute Executive Producer
• November 15, 2022
Landon Marshall was serving a life sentence until 2020, when the Louisiana Supreme Court ruled non-unanimous juries are unconstitutional. He spent 28 years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary.
The...
The Greenfield Louisiana Project has begun to construct a grain elevator in Wallace, Louisiana that Jo Banner, co-director of the Descendants Project, said is an act of environmental racism.
The Descendants...
Macie Batson, Senior Staff Writer
• November 11, 2022
With temperatures rising due to climate change and a severe drought affecting the country, the mighty Mississippi River's water level is at its lowest in a decade, forcing numerous parishes, including...
Living on Octavia Street in Uptown New Orleans, marketing sophomore Preslie Boswell said she is always hearing sounds of construction as she tries to relax in her home.
While Boswell said they are...
America’s employers kept hiring vigorously in October, adding 261,000 positions, a sign that as Election Day nears, the economy remains a picture of solid job growth and painful inflation.
Friday’s...
Novelist Ernest J. Gaines, whose poor childhood on a small Louisiana plantation inspired stories of black struggles that grew into universal tales of grace and beauty, will be depicted on a U.S. postage...
The Environmental Protection Agency recently released a letter that demonstrates the disproportionate impact cancer is having on Louisiana's Black community. The letter was sent to the state's Department...
A little more than 12% of registered voters in Louisiana have cast their ballots ahead of next week’s elections, keeping up with the state’s steady increase in midterm election turnout.
Of the 363,009...
Public transportation in New Orleans has been running behind when it comes to suiting commuter students' needs.
Loyola commuter students and some members of the Commuter Student Association gave their...
Student spending on course materials has dropped nearly 50% over the last decade, according to the Association of American Publishers. Loyola senior Roxana Coriano said it may be due to students’ inability...
Nicknamed the “Alcatraz of the South,” the Louisiana State Penitentiary, also known as Angola, is known for being a prison for the state’s worst offenders and death row inmates, and in June, Louisiana...
