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Fight For $15 protests against high incarceration

Rachel Espaillat April 27, 2016

Dozens of activists gathered outside the Orleans Parish Criminal District courthouse to raise their voices, saying the city doesn’t need a bigger prison. The sheriff’s office says he needs more...

Southern Poverty Law Center fights discriminatory law

Southern Poverty Law Center fights discriminatory law

Ysabel Lola April 21, 2016

The Southern Poverty Law Center presented about their fight to overturn a discriminatory voting law that has existed in Louisiana since the 1800s. This discussion was a part of the eighth annual peace...

Elias Khalif and Nidal Abirafeh perform classical Arabic music at the Syria and Beyond Refugee Benefit in Nunemaker Auditorium on Wednesday. The event, which was a part of the eighth annual peace conference, benefited The American Refugee Committee, Catholic Relief Services and Doctors Without Boarders.

Organizations across campus come together for annual peace conference

Ysabel Lola April 21, 2016

Loyola students took a stand for world peace this week with the 8th Annual Student Peace Conference. Started in 2008 by two then-seniors, the conference has since evolved into a week of discussing and...

New Orleans to add more all-night bus service

April 21, 2016

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — More public buses will be rolling around-the-clock in New Orleans, a step toward restoring the level of service that existed before Hurricane Katrina hit and devastated the city’s...

The truth about drunk driving

The truth about drunk driving

Sidney Holmes April 21, 2016

When Michael Reiber, music industry sophomore, lost his friend in high school to alcohol poisoning, he decided the best way to honor him and to end the possibility of losing another friend to alcohol was...

Mourner kneels by Will Smiths coffin

Family, Friends, and Fans come together to pay their last respects to Will Smith

Zayn Abidin April 16, 2016

The Saints practice facility welcomed family, friends and fans of the late football player, Will Smith, for a public visitation on Friday. The visitation began at 2 p.m. but hundreds of fans lined up...

Larry Rolling, left, and Duchess Hearst, right, parade down Camp street in the Lower Garden District as part of the second line for Will Smith on April 15. Smith, a former New Orleans Saint, was shot killed in an altercation after a minor traffic accident in the Lower Garden District on April 9.

Residents march for peace in the wake of Smith’s death

Mark T. Robinson and Zach Brien April 16, 2016

https://vimeo.com/163057790 Hundreds of people gathered at the Half Moon Bar in the Lower Garden District and paraded to the Ooh Pooh Pa Dooh Bar in the Treme in honor of former New Orleans Saints’...

Superdelegates act as a Democratic counterweight

April 15, 2016

With the Democratic candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders separated by around 200 delegates, the purpose of superdelegates come into question. According to Philip Dynia, professor and chairman...

Kay Charbonnet makes a sale at her boutique, Kay’s. Charbonnet is one of the many small business owners who are  worried about their businesses being negatively affected by the new sales tax increase, which was put into effect on April 1.

Sales tax hike affects small businesses

Emily Branan April 15, 2016

Kay Charbonnet, owner of a boutique called Kay’s, is worried her customers now have a reason to spend less money at her store because of a new tax. The one-cent sales tax increase went into effect on...

Protestors gather for an action against prison expansion in front of the Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse on Thursday, April 14, 2016.

Citizens protest the expansion of the Orleans Parish Prison

Taylor Galmiche April 15, 2016

Lea Stern is a felon. She has served time in prison, a fact that will mark her for the rest of her life. She tells a crowd of protestors about the “x” on her back in front of the Orleans Parish...

Photos Courtesy of Tippy Tippens

Loyola design students create logo for Lower Ninth Ward Market

Skyllarr Trusty, staff writer April 13, 2016
Burnell Cotlon was hand-making signs for his Lower Ninth Ward Market before Loyola design students decided to lend their talents to the local cause.
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