In African history, the gris-gris was an amulet or symbol of good luck and spiritual protection. The practice of using a gris-gris symbol was brought…
D.L. Hughley responded to the moving story of kidnapping victim, Bethany Arceneaux of Louisiana, yesterday on “The D.L. Hughley Show.” Arceneaux was dropping her child off at daycare and was…
Aevin Dugas (pictured), a Louisiana native, has set a Guinness World Record for the largest Afro in the world, according to the U.K. Daily Mail. SEE…
Although African Americans make up just 13 percent of the U.S. population, we account for 33 percent of the missing in the Federal Bureau of…
The Opelousas Massacre in St. Landry Parish, La., has baffled historians over the years. From varying accounts, hundreds of Blacks were reportedly killed, because of…
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David Duke, a former Louisiana State Representative and Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard , is reportedly thinking of running for president next year. According to political website The Daily Beast, Duke is launching a 25-city tour this month “to explore how much support he can garner for a potential presidential bid.” David Duke, a former […]
In the third episode of the infamous ON THE ROAD web series, Washington Watch correspondent and Interactive One Chief Content Officer Smokey D. Fontaine traveled to Louisiana to expose the frightening dilemmas of living in the Gulf Coast region after the worse oil spill in US history. Like this? Then def check out “Can Smokey […]
NEW ORLEANS (AP)– The pre-dawn shucking of small mountains of oysters that is an age-old workaday ritual in New Orleans is coming to an end at the 134-year-old P&J Oyster Co., because of the oil spilling ominously offshore.
From TIME.com: The marina of this Mississippi River Delta community usually teems with fishermen, oystermen and shrimpers. But the scene on Monday afternoon fell far short of that.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama, seeking to show command of a crisis that has exasperated the U.S., will head back to the state of Louisiana on Friday to review efforts to stop the disastrous Gulf oil spill.
COVINGTON, La. – The Obama administration’s environmental chief dipped a small cup into the oily mess at the mouth of the Mississippi and was surprised by what came out.
