Go to, you know, the toughest of the tough places and find the people who need help most. The children and young people that are working here are kids who have lived the toughest of the toughest lives in america. Some of them have been shot. Some of them are parents of children that have been shot. Some of them are young men and women that have served time in jail and have come out and now are running the facility. And they go on. They go on generally, every restaurant, hotel, looking for great employees, these kids, because these kids, one of them who hwas shot three times, is nw working hard and has a family and is stable. I read your wonderful memoir, the shadow of statues a white southerner confronts history. It seems as if racial reconciliation has been a mission of the landrieu family for 60 years. Your dad went to the legislature, your dad Moon Landrieu went to the legislature at the height of the battle for civil rights, he led the fight and became mayor and desegregated the wo
Iam Tucker, a former Baton Rouge police officer and daughter of legendary civil rights activist and businessman Robert H. Tucker, was named in March as the U.S. Small Business Administration s
Iam Tucker, a former Baton Rouge police officer and daughter of legendary civil rights activist and businessman Robert H. Tucker, was named in March as the U.S. Small Business Administration s
A recent federal audit says New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s administration bungled $141 million in green infrastructure grants. The really bad news is that this is hardly news to failure-weary
Long-awaited plans to complete a continuous line of parks along the Mississippi River are set to move forward after the New Orleans City Council on Thursday approved $15 million for redevelopment of two decommissioned wharves in the French Quarter and Marigny.