new orleans
June 4, 2012 -
Women With a Vision, a nonprofit that works to address the HIV/AIDS crisis in communities of color, is opening a temporary office in a church today after someone set fire to its offices last month. The attack comes amid escalating terroristic attacks against women's health organizations across the South.
May 23, 2012 -
A new database tracks exonerations of people who were falsely convicted of crimes, finding that almost a third of them took place in Southern states.
April 20, 2012 -
By 2010, the New Orleans East community had become a success story of the post-Katrina recovery, and more than 60 percent of the neighborhood had returned. And then, with the BP oil spill, disaster struck again.
August 8, 2011 -
By A.C. Thompson, ProPublica
April 29, 2009 -
Everyone else is chiming in with their grade on President Obama's first 100 days in office, so we thought we'd join in, too.
December 1, 2008 -
President-elect Barack Obama made Gulf Coast recovery a key theme of his campaign. Today, thousands of struggling residents — including those still displaced by Hurricanes Gustav and Ike — are prepared to make sure Obama lies up to his promises.
October 13, 2008 -
The Times-Picayune reports that more than three years after Hurricane Katrina, nearly 6,500 privately owned, federally-subsidized apartments sit unrepaired in the state of Louisiana. Most -- about 4,000 -- are in the New Orleans area.
