Regional News

Native Americans of Houma: Where else can their culture survive?

2010-07-19T13:35:08Z

Dulac, Louisiana — Some days the only people she serves are wayward journalists and well meaning volunteers who come down to south Louisiana after the nation’s worst oil spill. Some days not even the journalists or volunteers come. The locals have long since abandoned her restaurant.

Juneteenth celebrations to be held across La.

2010-06-14T11:45:36Z

A number of programs have been planned throughout Louisiana this month to commemorate Juneteenth, an observance that pays tribute to the end of the legal enslavement of Africans in America. Among the cities where these observances will take place are New Orleans and Lafayette. Other cities hosting Juneteenth activities include Richwood, La. and Donaldsonville, La.

Minority are targeted for risky loans, study finds

2010-05-10T19:15:44Z

As financial reform works its way through the Senate, a new study by the National Community Reinvestment Coalition (NCRC) indicates that subprime lending and subsequent resulting foreclosures were led by the private market and contained a clear racial component not explained by objective underwriting criteria.

Oil spill taking a toll on residents, wildlife and economy

2010-05-10T16:23:30Z

Nearly three weeks after an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico that claimed 11 lives and set off a panic about a major environmental disaster, there still appear to be few definitive answers about the extend of the disaster or its impact on the human and wildlife inhabitants that call the region home.

Portrait of Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr. is first to hang on SULC Alumni Judicial Wall of Fame

2010-04-19T12:00:32Z

The unveiling of a portrait of the late Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr., which will be hung in the new North Wing of the Southern University Law Center, was the opening highlight of the 2010 Justice Revius O. Ortique, Jr., Symposium on Law, Politics, Civil Rights, and Justice, on Thursday, April 8.