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New Orleans is in the midst of a violent murder spree unlike anything the city has seen before or since Hurricane Katrina.
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According to an excellent piece in today’s New York Times, New Orleans’ murder rate in 2010 was 10 times the national average, “long before shootings on Halloween night in the crowded French Quarter
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NEW ORLEANS, LA.–A New Orleans rapper and seven others face criminal charges after they used real guns to simulate a robbery at a convenience store for music a video they were shooting.
Danny Rogers, better known as “Lil Dee God’s Gift,” was acting out a mock robbery armed with real, unloaded guns when someone passing by thought a real robbery was occurring and called 911.
Read MoreJefferson Parish Sheriff’s deputies swarmed the parking lot, arresting
Six years after Hurricane Katrina devastated the city of New Orleans and its surrounding communities, former New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin says he regrets not calling a mandatory evacuation sooner in a candid sit-down interview with BET.com.
According to Nagin, his outspokenness made him an easy target and a scapegoat in many situations.
“I was basically the last person standing that was one of the key leaders,” he said.
Read More“There were open discussions
NEW ORLEANS — A federal jury on Friday convicted five current or former police officers in the deadly shootings on a New Orleans bridge after Hurricane Katrina.
Former officer Robert Faulcon, Sgts. Robert Gisevius and Kenneth Bowen, Officer Anthony Villavaso and retired Sgt. Arthur Kaufman were convicted of charges stemming from the cover-up of the shootings. All but Kaufman were convicted of civil rights violations stemming from the shootings. Kaufman, who investigated
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NEW ORLEANS — The city of New Orleans is meeting its subsidized housing demand with a new plan. Instead of crowding families in large subsidized plots, the city is building and mixing subsidized homes among its unsubsidized residences.
The city, which tore down all of its public housing developments in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, has opened 900 homes so far and has plans to build another 3,100 homes
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NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans Police Commander Eddie Selby resigned after being involved in allegations of inappropriate and racist comments.
The Grio Reports:
Read MoreWhile giving instructions to his Special Operations Division this past Friday, Selby supposedly made some offensive comments about those attending the Essence festival, which is a predominately African-American event.While the investigation was pending, Selby was moved to Deputy Chief Defillo’s office by Superintendent Ronal Serpas. Serpas
R&B/soul singer KEM is joined onstage at the 2011 Essence Music Festival by New Orleans native Ledisi.
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Trey Songz was one of many artist at the Essence Music Festival who covered their favorite throwbacks and giving tribute to those who paved the way for his success in R&B.
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Chaka Khan opens up onstage in New Orleans about the circumstances surrounding her decision to leave her first husband whom she now refers to in song as her “baby daddy.”
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Trey Songz takes on the summer’s hottest single “Motivation” (by Kelly Rowland) with one of the song’s official remixes live at the Essence Music Festival in New Orleans.
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