The city’s only traditional, district-run school has had to add more staff and bus routes as its student count has increased.

Westbank native Rosey Lee’s new book is “A Gardin Wedding,” the second in her series about a loving Southern family.

Due to a 2022 redistricting ordinance, some New Orleans residents will be voting in a new City Council district this fall — even if they don’t know it yet.

Sign up for Verite's free, bi-weekly newsletter and get the New Orleans news you need on Tuesday mornings and Thursday afternoons. George Geddes, who was born in 1845 and became known as the “Pioneer ...

Increased funding for Louisiana’s Steve Carter Education Program will give more students access to private after-school ...

While public memorials of New Orleans’ prominent role in the slave trade have been mostly understated or non-existent, cities ...

Eric Wright never met his grandfather. All he knew of his mother’s father, who passed away before Wright was born, came from ...

New Orleans first dedicated Almonaster Avenue in 1852. The street was named after Andrés Almonester y Rojas, an 18th-century ...

Mayor LaToya Cantrell will be barred from international travel while her court case is pending, under the terms of release ...

Not only was Lora Hinton the first Black student at his high school in Chesapeake, Va., but he also was the first Black ...

The study reviewed more than 150,000 domestic violence calls over 10 years to the New Orleans Police Department.

When the floodwaters from Hurricane Katrina began to recede, neighborhoods were left with more questions than answers.