There is finally an official music video to go along with Drake’s track In My Feelings, the song that launched a social media challenge that has not only propelled the song to No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100, but has also sent fans to the hospital with serious injuries. Shot in New Orleans and released late Thursday, the […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Two armed individuals walked up to a crowd gathered Saturday evening outside a strip mall in New Orleans and opened fire, killing three people and wounding seven more, the police chief said. NOLA.com reports that the shooting is likely gang-related and that the shooters targeted a specific victim. From NOLA.com: A […]
(Via Black News) – 28-year-old Jade Colin from New Orleans has made history as the youngest Black woman to ever become a McDonald’s franchise owner. While in college, she started her career as an employee working the night shift at a local McDonald’s, and after years of earning promotions and awards, she decided to purchase her […]
Comedian Steve Brown is headed to New Orleans for the 2018 Omega Psi Phi Conclave. He says “I warned the Bruhs about New Orleans and New Orleans about the Bruhs,” and came with a list of do’s and don’t’s! For the Ques: – Its ok to walk! You don’t have to hop everywhere. -If you’re […]
On this day in 1930, Dillard University in New Orleans was officially chartered. This came after two existing institutions in the region saw the benefit in combining to better serve students. New Orleans University, an all-male school, and Straight College, an all-female school, were institutions that thrived but both local white and Black activists saw […]
Weeks after a San Francisco church held the first ever “Beyoncé Mass,” the singer may have purchased a church of her very own in New Orleans, near the home of her sister, Solange. According to reports, the 100-year-old house of worship was on the market for $850,000. So far, no word on what Bey plans to do […]
He was unarmed and police claim they were "fighting for their lives."
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — One used to deal drugs on the streets of New Orleans. Another grew up in Chicago with two drug-addicted parents. A third survived the tough streets of New York and Washington, D.C., where he once stared down the barrel of a gun. All three young black men became board-certified doctors. In […]
Cantrell made history becoming the first woman and the first Black woman, in the city's 300-year history.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans-born saxophone player Charles Neville, who once backed up B.B. King and later gained fame with the Neville Brothers band and their rollicking blend of funk, jazz and rhythm and blues, has died. He was 79. His death came Thursday, months after he disclosed he was fighting pancreatic cancer. Neville’s […]
April is the time of year that high school students start receiving college acceptance letters in hopes of gaining entrance into their school of choice. Students are happy if they get 8 or 10 acceptance letters but one school in New Orléans has students receiving over 20 acceptance letters, according to WGNO News. Including one student getting a grand […]
