It happens every day in America! By Jeff Thomas Black men kill each other at alarming rates all across America every day. Nearly every city’s daily news casts reports, “Today…
Moreno and Landry Are Beefing. Is the President Unhinged?
TL;DR Governor Landry and Mayor Moreno are exchanging letters because phones apparently don’t exist anymore. New Orleans needed $110 million. Then it didn’t. The governor is confused. The mayor is…
The Mayor and Governor Are Tweeting. New Orleans Is Bleeding.
TL;DR Mayor Moreno is making the right arguments. The city is still losing. Not because she is wrong — but because the strategy is not working. The public letter war…
Essence Fest’s Failing Model: New Orleans Deserves Better
TL;DR Essence Festival 2026 just wrapped in New Orleans. Friday night was full. Saturday was well attended. Sunday night the Superdome was half empty. Essence is simultaneously asking the city…
Essence Fest Is More Than a Party. It’s a Permission Slip
TL;DR Essence Festival 2026 just wrapped in New Orleans — and if you were there, you already know what happened. Something shifted in that building. Something that goes deeper than…
Essence Fest Wants $12 Million a Year. New Orleans Should Ask What It Gets Back
TL;DR Essence Fest is seeking up to $12 million a year from New Orleans and Louisiana as its contract expires in September. The economic case for keeping it here is…
She Came for New Orleans. New Orleans Slapped Back.
TL;DR Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill sent eight letters threatening to strip New Orleans elected officials of their offices if they didn’t fall in line. An Orleans Parish grand jury…
So Many of Us Wake Up Tired, and That Exhaustion Could Be Dangerous
TL;DR Feeling tired after a full night of sleep is not just stress and it is not just age. For many of us, it is a medical condition called sleep…
Lincoln Beach, Essence Fest, and the Black Right to Vacation
TL;DR Black beaches were never just vacation spots. They were freedom spaces — built because white America blocked Black families from public leisure. As July Fourth approaches, New Orleans should…
New Orleans Is Losing Louisiana. The 2026 Session Just Made It Official.
TL;DR New Orleans is not just losing people. It is losing power. The 2026 Louisiana legislative session reduced the city’s judges, eliminated its criminal clerk of court, cut its congressional…
Our Mothers Are Dying. The System Knows. And Now It Is Cutting the Only Safety Net They Have.
TL;DR Black women in America are dying from pregnancy-related causes at nearly 3.5 times the rate of white women — and in Louisiana, that number is even worse. Meanwhile, Congress…