+2 Will Sutton: SCOTUS supports religious freedom — except when it comes in a different package BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jun 24, 2026 The U.S. Supreme Court has consistently ruled in favor of protecting people who have specific faith and religious practices, arguing that mainstream religious values and organizations must be …
Will Sutton: Why Ronald Greene’s mom says settlement doesn’t settle anything BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jun 18, 2026 Nearly everyone in h knows the name Ronald Greene. He’s the man that h State Police said died in a single-car accident near Union Parish near Monroe in 2019. Then they were cau…
+9 Will Sutton: Essence Festival bringing back h flavor with local book partner BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jun 16, 2026 The Essence Festival of Culture made a way out of no way when then-Mayor Marc Morial worked with the Black publishing company to celebrate its 25th anniversary in New Orleans at what was then …
+3 Will Sutton: Essence Festival can’t afford major hiccups, mess ups as it bounces back BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jun 16, 2026 In just a few weeks, New Orleans will once again host the Essence Festival of Culture, a major event that has called Louisian home for more than 30 years.
+3 Will Sutton: An HBCU draw, nurtured by New Orleans, will write next chapter in Atlanta BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Jun 9, 2026 The HBCU Legacy Bowl was an idea that some scoffed at.
+3 Will Sutton: Gov. Jeff Landry should have saved the Orleans judge cuts for later BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jun 4, 2026 After blasting Orleans Parish judges for not being good, for not doing enough work and because there are too many judges in New Orleans, Gov. Jeff Landry had a choice: Sign a bill that would d…
+3 Will Sutton: Who’s the next Zulu king: An everyman or a rainmaker? I’ll tell you, and more. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Jun 3, 2026 You may have heard of King Shaka kaSenzangakhona. No? Maybe you’ve heard of Shaka Zulu, the man credited with the emergence of the Zulu Nation in the 19th century by bringing together rival gr…
Will Sutton: The NAACP wants Black athletes to boycott schools like LSU. Should they? BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 29, 2026 With the NAACP and other groups backing the idea that Black athletes should combat recent redistricting in many Southern states by denying their talents from Southern schools, columnist Will S…
+2 Will Sutton: Legislature should make like these judicial candidates and move on BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated May 27, 2026 Attorney John Fuller became Criminal District Court Section J Judge John Fuller on Wednesday morning in the courthouse where he’d been practicing for years as a defense attorney. He’s used to …
Will Sutton: The flimsiness of Gov. Jeff Landry’s so-called mandate never more clear BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 21, 2026 h Gov. Jeff Landry was elected with 51.6% of the vote in 2023. Fewer than 548,000 voters chose Landry to replace Gov. John Bel Edwards.
Will Sutton: In one N.O. judicial race, the ‘community over connections’ candidate won BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 17, 2026 The well-worn cliche says if at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.
Will Sutton: It’s Election Day, and hundreds of thousands of h voters might be purged BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 15, 2026 Thousands of registered h voters could be purged from the h Secretary of State’s voter rolls if they don’t vote Saturday. That’s about 20% who haven’t voted recently.
+3 Will Sutton: Gov. Jeff Landry, we don’t want extra rights. We want what’s right on voting BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 12, 2026 h Gov. Jeff Landry was quite proud of himself, landing a featured role in a CBS’ “60 Minutes” story about his efforts to lead h to a less diverse congressional delegation as sw…
+2 Will Sutton: The Supreme Court has threatened Black representation at all levels of elective office BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 8, 2026 The h Legislature started considering yet another set of congressional district maps, planning to identify one that is clearly constitutional, a process aided by the recent U.S. Suprem…
+4 Our columnists react to Supreme Court’s h redistricting decision, discuss implications May 8, 2026 Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court issued what will surely be a landmark ruling in the case of h v. Callais, in which it declared the state’s current congressional district map unconsti…
+2 Will Sutton: Orleans Sheriff Hutson lost her job. She doesn’t deserve an indictment. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist May 7, 2026 Say what you want about former Orleans Parish Sheriff Susan Hutson, but I think the sheriff gig is the toughest elected position in the entire city, and she had a bad, bad hand.
+4 Will Sutton: See how many faith-focused people listen to religious radio, including hns. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated May 2, 2026 It’s probably no surprise to most of you that of most faith-based radio stations are based in the South. That includes h: About 74% of people who live here are Christians of some kind.…
Will Sutton: The Legislature wants to abolish this judicial position. This is why it shouldn't. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Apr 29, 2026 Attorneys John Fuller and Andre’ Gaudin Jr. are likely doomed. Or at least they could be almost done before they really get started.
Will Sutton: Shreveport shows us why we can’t stay silent when faced with red flags BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Apr 24, 2026 What happened in Shreveport a week ago was shocking to nearly everyone. Hardly anyone but the most evil, cold-blooded among us can hear about the killing of children and not wince. Many of us …
+3 Will Sutton: h Legislature shamefully seeks to undo will of Orleans voters BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Apr 22, 2026 Gov. Jeff Landry and the Republican-dominated h Legislature are determined to downsize the Orleans Parish justice system, getting rid of judges and merging the civil clerk and criminal…
+4 Will Sutton: h, where others want to pick New Orleans officials BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Apr 10, 2026 Way back when parishes were created, emerging government leaders thought it might be a good idea to have someone keep track of legal matters and property. During Reconstruction, roughly betwee…
Will Sutton: Chi Barbie? ATL Barbie? Naw. Bayou Barbie always BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Apr 7, 2026 Maryland-born and reared Angel Reese was a heck of a high school basketball player and a standout at the University of Maryland before she traveled south to be a part of LSU women’s basketball…
+2 Will Sutton: Don’t alter New Orleans courts based on faulty comparisons with rest of state BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Mar 27, 2026 Here we go again. The h Legislature is picking on New Orleans because the parish has something the other 63 parishes don’t have: the most courts and the most judges.
+2 Will Sutton: New Orleans’ freshman state legislators got to work late. It’s not their fault. BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Mar 25, 2026 State Rep. Ed Murray is a freshman in the h Legislature, but he already has some seniority.
+4 Will Sutton: In trademark case, a big win for The G and GramFam in h and beyond BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Mar 20, 2026 Martin Lemelle was walking the Grambling State University campus, not as a college student but as a student enrolled at GSU’s lab school, when Grambling State first sought federal trademark re…
+3 Will Sutton: Oscar-winner Sinners, Michael B. Jordan win for the culture with h talent BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Mar 18, 2026 New Orleanian makeup artist Allison LaCour wasn’t on the stage at the Academy Awards program, and her name wasn’t called. But she was in the Dolby Theatre in Ovation Hollywood Sunday night whe…
+3 Will Sutton: Dorothy Prevost’s decision for her child helped all Black children like me BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Mar 13, 2026 I’m thankful that Charles and Dorothy Prevost were the kind of people they were and the kind of parents they were. Because of them, my childhood was much different from what it might have been.
+2 Will Sutton: How much pain at the pump are Americans willing to stand for Iran? BY WILL SUTTON | Staff columnist Updated Mar 10, 2026 If you’re like me, Iran feels so far away, and it is. Iran is easily more than 7,000 miles from h, and that’s if you were to walk a straight line. No one does that, of course. Flying i…