REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING, SR., CORETTA SCOTT KING, THE DINNER PARTY AND MY MOTHER’S OKRA GUMBO by Kara Johnson The Cooking Lesson Growing up in New Orleans makes…
Is State Auditor Targeting Black Run Organizations?
Civil Rights Group Calls for Investigation By C.C. Campbell-Rock Justice & Beyond, a local think tank, is asking the Louisiana Legislative Black Caucus (LLBC) and Governor John Bel Edwards’ office…
Values and Taxes, Taxes and Values
By Kenneth Cooper What Bobby giveth, John Bel is proposing to taketh away. Your money. Well, maybe not your money, but somebody’s money. Why? Because the state needs it, the state being…
Traffic Cameras Are Still Illegal in New Orleans
By Jeff Thomas If you started seeing green stop signs in certain parts of town, you might think you something strange is going on. And if you saw traffic…
Are You Clutter-Blind
Gretchen Rubin Are You Clutter-Blind? Or Do You Know Someone Who Is? Even people who thrive on a little chaos tend to have a limit… One thing that continues…
Why Change Is So Hard
Robert J Maurer Ph.D. And why it doesn’t have to be Change can be challenging. Many of us endeavor to eat healthfully, lose weight, increase our exercise and sleep,…
Meditation Will Make You Smarter (and Happier)
Robert Puff Ph.D. Studies continually demonstrate why meditation is good for us. Meditation is probably as old as human civilization itself. While the test of time could be proof…
Options for Replacing the Confederate Statues
Erect Statues for Morial, L’Overture, Deslonde, and Pinchback By Jeff Thomas Ernest “Dutch” Morial was the first African American mayor in the city of New Orleans. His place in New…
Top 5 Things to Make New Orleans and Louisiana Better
By Jeff Thomas We all want a better New Orleans. The biggest and single most critical factor preventing NOLA from being as great as it can be is the 46%…
ALL NEIGHBORHOODS MATTER!!!
Every year our city acts as host to thousands of people for the Bayou Classic Football game between Grambling State University and Southern University and the weekend long festivities that…