How Black and white New Orleans was kept separate through covenants, steering and blockbusting. In Follow the Line Part 2, experts speak on how discriminatory practices found their way from the ...

In 2010, Lt. Gov. Mitch Landrieu became New Orleans' first White mayor since his father, Moon Landrieu, was mayor 32 years ...

The Essence Festival of Culture will keep attendees busy, but people still need to eat. Here are 20 Black-owned New Orleans ...

Art exhibition that tells ‘Stories of Us’ will be on full display during the ESSENCE Festival of Culture daytime experience ...

New Orleans viewers and lasted almost the entire run. However, audiences were shocked when the character left the program in ...

This story originally appeared in the July/August 2024 issue of ESSENCE magazine, on stands June 25. At the southern reach of the United States map, and about 50 percent below sea level, lies New ...

Ms. Compton, 44, helped usher in a new era for Black leaders in the New Orleans food community. Since George Floyd was murdered in 2020, she has noticed an uptick in customers responding to more ...

More than two decades later, new research reveals the disturbing persistence of hiring bias—and some unexpected twists that ...

Today, New Orleans is a majority-Black city. Most politicians have been Black since Dutch Morial was elected mayor in 1978. But the elite, so-called “old-line” Carnival krewes remain all-male ...

According to our "official" weather records for New Orleans dating back to 1871, we've only had 2 white Christmases. We had 1" of snow on Christmas Day in 2004 and only recorded a trace in 1953.

New Orleans Bestows Historic Marker On Black Business District Forced Out By Interstate Construction From the 1830s until the 1970s, Black people used the area to shop.

On a meaningful Sunday in December 2024, New Orleans marked a pivotal moment in preserving its African American heritage. The unveiling of a historic marker beneath the Claiborne overpass ...