New Orleans retains a black majority
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New Orleans is narrowly retaining a black majority after Hurricane Katrina, according to a study released Wednesday by The Brookings Institution.
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New Orleans' population is still  only 41 percent of its size before Hurricane Katrina devastated  the city 15 months ago, according to a state survey that casts  doubts on rosier predictions by the mayor.
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Despite slow progress in rebuilding some neighborhoods, New Orleans' population is nearing 300,000, or about 65 percent of its pre-Hurricane Katrina size, according to a new report.
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Detroit has a Greektown section that tempts visitors with moussaka and baklava, and a Mexicantown neighborhood with Latin American groceries and restaurants. Now, politicians are pushing for a business district identified with the city's biggest minority group &#151; blacks.
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Phoenix moved into the top five on the list of largest U.S. cities but New Orleans lost half its population, U.S. Census Bureau figures released Thursday show.  The Census Bureau issued its city population report based on data as of July 1, 2006.
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Democratic rivals Barack Obama  and Hillary Rodham Clinton, joined by former President Bill  Clinton, descended on a hallowed shrine of the civil rights  movement on Sunday to court black voters who could help pick  the party's 2008 presidential nominee.
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NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 10 -- Rep. William J. Jefferson may be a pariah in some Washington political circles, but voters in this storm-battered city weighed in over the weekend with their own verdict regarding their scandal-plagued congressman: He's still our guy.
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For the first time ever in the South, blacks are as well represented on college campuses as they are in the region's population as a whole &#151; something not yet true of the country overall.
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The National Guard, which has helped patrol some of the least populated sections of this hurricane-battered city for nearly a year, will remain in New Orleans at least through the end of hurricane season.
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The Mississippi Press. NEW ORLEANS -- Staying alive -- that is what the New Orleans Saints are surprisingly doing this December. Instead of a typical New Orleans collapse in the final month
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One person was killed and at least  19 people were injured on Tuesday when a tornado swept through  New Orleans neighborhoods still recovering from Hurricane  Katrina.
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Service has returned to the historic St. Charles streetcar line in New Orleans, but there are far fewer riders than before Hurricane Katrina.
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NEW ORLEANS - Many New Orleans voters were unable to cast ballots Saturday on a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage because voting machines had not been delivered to polling places, a state official said.    At least 35 precincts did not have voting machines because drivers hired to deliver the machines had apparently not shown up for work, said Scott Madere, a spokesman for Secretary of State Fox McKeithen...
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Dancing, drinking revelers crowded the streets of New Orleans on Tuesday as colorful parades rolled through the damaged city on the final day of a Mardi Gras that locals touted as another step in the long recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
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New Orleans is still at risk of serious flooding two years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city, a government report has found.
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New Orleans will host the 2008 NBA All-Star Game, the league announced Monday, providing a boost to a beleaguered city still recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
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Ray Nagin narrowly won a second   term as mayor of New Orleans on Saturday with support from both   black and white voters and immediately began mending fences   with the federal and state governments to hasten the devastated   city's recovery.