Kermit Ruffins, owner of Kermit’s Tremé Mother-in-Law Lounge, is stepping down from managing the iconic New Orleans jazz bar.

Verite News editor-in-chief Terry Baquet spoke with scholar, Harvard University professor and columnist for The Atlantic ...

Wednesday granted a judge’s order to bring a Turkish Tufts University student from a Louisiana immigration detention center ...

Located at 3940 Thalia St., the Gem “provided a first-class experience to Black patrons,” a 2019 Country Roads Magazine ...

When a New York physician was indicted for shipping abortion medications to a woman in Louisiana, it stoked fear across the ...

The Orleans Parish School Board has declined, for now, an offer to settle a 2019 lawsuit against the city, saying it doesn’t ...

A panel of federal judges in New York considered whether to allow the transfer of Tufts University student Rumeysa Öztürk ...

A Louisiana judge this week set aside the first-degree murder conviction and death sentence of Jimmie Chris Duncan.

Some artists and bands performed traditional Black Masking Indian music, which is driven by West African percussive rhythms, ...

Rep. Patricia Moore, D-Monroe, at the Louisiana State Capitol building on Wednesday, May 7, 2025. Credit: John Gray / Verite News Sign up for Verite's free, bi-weekly newsletter and get the New ...

Maze, the soul and funk group that was beloved by New Orleans’ Black community, honored Frankie Beverly, who passed away in ...

After receiving political asylum, Kiem settled in Gretna. For 20 years, he was an Entergy cost engineer and a translator for ...