Blake Pontchartrain Blake Pontchartrain: The story of the civil rights activists memorialized at Claiborne and Jackson avenues Blake Pontchartrain Jun 24, 2019 It's a memorial honoring nine slain civil rights activists.Â
+5 ¶¶Òõh New Orleans author Daniel Brook looks to Reconstruction-era New Orleans to unravel the present BY ANDRU OKUN Jun 3, 2019 “I was a pretty interested civilian when it came to the history of these things, and I had no idea the schools were desegregated here during Reconstruction."
News California restaurant shuts after word of owner's gift to ex-KKK leader David Duke's 2016 ¶¶Òõh campaign The Associated Press Sep 1, 2017 SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — A Chinese restaurant open in Santa Cruz for almost four decades has closed its doors after a boycott and online back…
+10 Opinion Baton Rouge rally protests violence, racism in wake of Charlottesville BY EMMA DISCHER | edischer@theadvocate.com Aug 13, 2017 After a white supremacist rally turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, activists across the country, including those in Baton Rouge, held solidarity events Sunday for the counter-protesters.
+10 News Baton Rouge rally protests violence, racism in wake of Charlottesville BY EMMA DISCHER | edischer@theadvocate.com Aug 13, 2017 After a white supremacist rally turned violent in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, activists across the country, including those in Bat…
James Gill James Gill: As Confederate monuments fall, workers' illegal masks an ironic twist of fate By James Gill May 18, 2017 Scores of people have taken to the streets in the dead of night lately, flagrantly breaking the law.
Education First black student in Ferriday meets with klansman's daughter 50 years after firebombing BY KAYLA HAMPTON Manship School News Service Apr 15, 2017 FERRIDAY — On the night of Jan. 30, 1966, in the racially divided city of Ferriday, David Whatley, the first black student to attend the town’…
News Prairieville man given suspended sentence, ordered to pay up to $85,000 in restitution after conviction in 2013 shooting BY DAVID J. MITCHELL | dmitchell@theadvocate.com Dec 6, 2016 GONZALES — A Prairieville man who spent more than three years in parish jail awaiting his trial in a 2013 slaying walked out of the Ascension …
Elections Urgent Eric Trump slams David Duke, says U.S. Senate candidate 'does deseve a bullet' BY ELIZABETH CRISP | ecrisp@theadvocate.com Nov 3, 2016 Donald Trump's son said in a radio interview Thursday that Republican U.S. Senate candidate and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke "does de…
+2 Education David Duke heads to a debate at Dillard, and some students are unhappy BY JESSICA WILLIAMS | jwilliams@theadvocate.com Oct 29, 2016 An unexpected turn of events has given former Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard David Duke a platform this week at Dillard University, a historically …