Soledad O’Brien is everywhere, you ain’t never there. That’s a Jay-Z lyric, but it seems appropriate for the enterprising reporter who manages to be everywhere the news is made. So the on-air murders of a Virginia news reporter and her cameraman truly hit home. “This was just a horrific case of a guy who was armed […]
It’s been said that memories are retained depending on their value. Hearing something like this makes you think highly of those vivid images of past times that seem to remain embedded in your mind yet it’s the adverse memories that tend to affect us the most. I share memories with thousands of residents of southern […]
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says New Orleans is “moving forward” a decade after Hurricane Katrina dealt it a devastating blow, and has become an example of what can happen when people rally around each other to build a better future out of the despair of tragedy. Obama was marking the storm’s 10th anniversary […]
EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — President Barack Obama will mark next week’s 10th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina by visiting New Orleans, which bore the brunt of the storm’s devastating blow and has yet to fully recover from the loss of life and property left behind in its wake. The White House announced Wednesday that Obama will […]
The W.K. Kellogg Foundation is donating $4.7 million to eight organizations in New Orleans and two coalitions in Mississippi devoted to uplifting young men and…
A scandal in New Orleans has the city riveted as a prominent lawyer, his wife, a Federal judge and a businesswoman who is head of the one of the city’s popular Black Mardi Gras organization and facing federal charges, are involved in what looks like a love triangle. Lisa Crinel (pictured) a New Orleans businesswoman is […]
On April 8, Solange Knowles’ creative business partner, Armina Mussa, was stabbed ten times by her roommate’s acquaintance in New Orleans’ St. Roch neighborhood. The attacker, 26-year-old Arronesia Christophe, was booked on charges of attempted second-degree murder and aggravated battery. Mussa and Christophe reportedly got into a confrontation outside of a home when Christophe pulled […]
Beyonce and Jay Z have shelled out the big bucks for the “La Casa de Castille”, according to sources like Variety and the real estate blog Curbed. A Spanish baroque…
The details of former NFL star Darren Shaper’s plea deal for serial rape have come out, and one bizarre one – penile plethysmograph, or PPG…
As the city of St. Louis celebrates Mardi Gras, the lighthearted celebration can’t change the somber tone in the area following the death of Michael…
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One person was killed and another wounded in a New Orleans shooting along a Mardi Gras parade route in uptown, police said. Police spokesman Frank Robertson said there was an altercation around 10 p.m. Thursday during which a person produced a gun and shot two people. One victim was struck in […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Throughout the quieter parts of the French Quarter, residents and businesses have posted signs that read “Caution: Walk in Large Groups. We (heart) N.O.P.D. We Just Need More.” It’s an unsettling message about violent crime in the Big Easy for the 1 million revelers about to descend for Carnival season, which […]
