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A New Orleans police officer who fatally shot a puppy will face a jury lawsuit trial
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy while responding to a call is set to go to trial ...
Jury finds New Orleans police officer who shot and killed puppy violated rights but has immunity
A jury in federal court ruled that a New Orleans police officer who shot and killed a puppy had violated its owners' ...
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Will Sutton: The 19 of New Orleans weren't the first or last mistreated Black people
I walked along the sidewalk beyond the library to the Lawless Chapel on the Dillard University campus and paused when I saw a ...
Three of four teens pleaded guilty in armed carjacking of New Orleans DA
Ahmad Seals, Santana Gilmore, Dijohn Curis, and Amajha Curtis are each facing three counts of armed robbery and are being ...
Impact Day: Another round of showers and storms for the afternoon in your New Orleans Tuesday forecast
Scattered showers and thunderstorms are expected this afternoon and evening with highs in the upper 80s to low 90s. A couple ...
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Honoring the repatriated Black New Orleanians whose skulls were taken for pseudoscience
Dr. Eva Baham, a historian who led Dillard’s repatriation efforts in partnership with the University of Leipzig, joined ...
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When Plaquemines Parish’s largest community was a rowdy, bustling microcosm of New Orleans
What civilized the rambunctious outpost was the arrival of pilots’ families, whose numbers turned the Balize into the largest ...
Remains of 19 Black Americans returned to New Orleans nearly 150 years later
A New Orleans committee announced the remains of 19 Black Americans whose skulls were taken to Leipzig, Germany, in the 1880s will receive a jazz funeral.
Five historic restaurants that fed the civil rights movement
From a Memphis fried chicken joint to a tamale counter in Jackson, these restaurants didn't just feed civil rights leaders – ...
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Skulls once subject to racist study in Germany are laid to rest in New Orleans
A memorial and jazz funeral honored 19 Black Americans, whose remains were recently repatriated from Germany where they were ...
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Remains of 19 Black Americans returned to New Orleans nearly 150 years later
"We have people who were here in New Orleans from one hour in 1871, one day, a week, two months," Baham said at the news conference. "I just want to remind you that the Civil War had ended in 1865 ...
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New Orleans Learned To Fly
New Orleans as a Black city has ... The Black population declined with political and racial turmoil—the Civil War, Emancipation through Reconstruction, and Jim Crow segregation through the ...