Another Social Conflict Confronts New Orleans
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The Âsecond lineÂ clubs, which lead the cityÂs distinctive black tradition of parading, say they feel threatened by new police fees.
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Another police officer has been shot and killed during sporadic violence gripping Haiti&#39;s capital, police said Monday. Jean Nicolo was killed Saturday during a patrol through the waterfront La Saline slum.
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The swamps, bayous and rice fields of Louisiana's Cajun country have emerged as the site of the nation's latest political battleground.
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A proposal by the federal Department of Housing and Urban Development to demolish four public housing complexes in New Orleans has touched a raw nerve.
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Four men were killed in one shooting and a fifth was gunned down in a separate incident hours later, the latest round of killings as the city struggles to rein in drug- and gang-related violence that has accompanied the recovery from Hurricane Katrina, police said Saturday.
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Amid all the problems that New Orleans has faced, relieving black-white distrust has proven to be one of the toughest
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Two gatherings in the nation's capital help point up the difference between theorizing about war--and fighting one.
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Raymond W. Kelly is again the public face of a police department involved in yet another public furor.
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The ravages of Katrina are still evident everywhere you turn. But there is reason for optimism in New Orleans. A city that once laughed at its colorful and inept political culture has found its civic pride.
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Standing in the ruins of the Lower  Ninth Ward, New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin envisions for the crowd  a city rebuilt from Hurricane Katrina with new houses standing  high above the reach of killer storms and grinding poverty.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 20 -- Police used chemical spray and stun guns Thursday on protesters who tried to force their way into a City Council meeting, the latest strife over plans to demolish 4,500 public housing units in a redevelopment project that council members unanimously supported.
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Father Bill Terry of St. Anna's Episcopal Church in New Orleans wants everyone to know what's happening in his city: too many murders and too few people held accountable. He keeps track of the deaths on a "murder board," a plastic board hanging outside his church.
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The Congressional Black Caucus has asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to form a new committee on Hurricane Katrina to focus more urgently on rebuilding the Gulf Coast, particularly New Orleans.
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Violence and political instability are growing in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. More than seven months after former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide fled the country, political polarization
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The New Orleans mayor could fill a vacuum if the state's most influential African-American politician goes down
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The state of Louisiana is on the skirmish lines of a growing fight waged by animal-rights groups, lawmakers and courts over the treatment of animals in relation to sports.
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New Orleans got ready on Friday for the bead-throwing and bacchanalia of the final, climactic weekend of Mardi Gras amid ugly reminders of the violence gripping the storm-shattered city.