Verite News is excited to announce that Blanca Méndez has joined our growing newsroom in the newly created position of ...

On Thursday, many in New Orleans will be celebrating the 160th anniversary of Juneteenth, which was recognized as a federal ...

Behind the effort to bring the skulls of 19 Black New Orleanians, held in Germany for more than 150 years, back home.

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A judge vacated Duncan’s murder conviction in April after his legal team argued that it was based on junk science.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested 84 people unlawfully in the country during a raid at a southwest ...

Sheila Craig's Uptown community was tight-knit and supportive. She hasn't found one like it since she left New Orleans.

A group of approximately 20 people gathered outside of an immigration check-in facility in St. Charles Parish for the second ...

Humbles was barely 18 when she was selected to be on the first Freedom Ride bus, which a white mob firebombed in Alabama.

Dozens of unionized nurses at University Medical Center gathered Monday (June 16) to protest an alleged attempt by the ...

The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from Chevron, Exxon and other oil and gas companies that lawsuits seeking compensation ...

After federal immigration agents raided a federally funded critical infrastructure project in New Orleans, stoking fears in ...