By KRISTIN M. HALL (AP) — Playing a banjo as a Black female artist is a form of activism for the four members of Our Native Daughters.
Their story, appearing in a new documentary called “...
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The family of a woman killed in a float accident during the 2020 Nyx parade is suing the the krewe, its captain, and the City of New Orleans.
The family of Geraldine Turner C...
By ANDREW DALTON (AP) — “Kimye” is kaput.
Kim Kardashian West filed for divorce from Kanye West Friday after 6 1/2 years of marriage, court records show. The move brings an imp...
By GARY GERARD HAMILTON (AP) — If good things come in threes, then Kelly Rowland is basking in her current moment of bliss.
Less than a month ago the Grammy winner birthed her second child, Noa...
By MELINDA DESLATTE (AP) — Louisiana is asking President Joe Biden’s administration to establish one of its planned federal coronavirus vaccine sites at the New Orleans convention center, ...
NEW YORK (AP) — NBA All-Star Chris Paul has an off-court project in the works: His first book.
Paul’s “Sixty-One: Life Lessons from Papa, On and Off the Court” will come out i...
By KEVIN McGILL (AP) — Music blared from the courtyard of a French Quarter restaurant on Mardi Gras morning but nobody was there to hear it until Tom Gibson and Sheila Wheeler of Philadelphia wa...
By ADAM WRIGHT (WTDN) - For the first time in more than 40 years, Mardi Gras has been canceled in New Orleans - it has only happened 14 other years since 1857. But no need to fear, L. Kasimu Har...
By MARK KENNEDY (AP) — Tyler Perry and Bill and Hillary Clinton are among the attendees of a private memorial service for Cicely Tyson at Harlem’s famed Abyssinian Baptist Church.
The mem...
NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans’ annual pre-Lenten Mardi Gras celebration is muted this year because of the coronavirus pandemic.
Mayor LaToya Cantrell has ordered bars closed during the Mardi ...
