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http://veritenews.org 29-06-2022 19:51:01
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Among Yvonne Olivier Bechet’s many accomplishments was her trailblazing tenure at the New Orleans Police Department.
By columnist Tammy C. Barney.
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A voting systems law enacted in 2021 to placate right-wing election deniers has made buying voting machines so burdensome that lawmakers are now repealing parts of it.
This story, by Wesley Muller, was originally published by @illuminatorla.
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Considered the king of cornetists, Buddy Bolden was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and committed to the Louisiana Insane Asylum in 1907. But it's likely he was misdiagnosed.
By columnist Tammy C. Barney
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Wind energy will continue to boost opportunities. The question for our state’s leaders is whether we want to maximize those benefits.
By New Orleans City Councilwoman Helena Moreno and Public Service Commissioner Commish. Davante Lewis
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'The white people of this country may charge that he was a desperado, but to people of his own race Robert Charles will always be regarded as the hero of New Orleans.”
Tammy C. Barney writes about activist Robert Charles in this Back in the Day column.
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Why do environmental groups and pro-Palestinian activists care about the River District development?
Josie Abugov answers that question and more in this explainer.
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Vietnamese people began to settle in Village de L’Est – specifically in Versailles Arms apartment complex – in 1975 when they fled to the United States after the Vietnam War.
By Verite columnist Tammy C. Barney.
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Get ready for what's predicted to be the most severe Atlantic hurricane season ever. By C.L.R. James Baldwin 🐟 veritenews.org/2024/05/23/hur…
Marie Couvent was enslaved as a child. And, she enslaved Black people. She could not read or write. And, she donated property for a school for Black orphans.
Tammy C. Barney writes about Couvent's contradictions in this Back in the Day Column.
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Verite reporter Richard A. Webster appeared on WGNO-TV (ABC) New Orleans to speak about his recent investigation for ProPublica's Local Reporting Network into claims of healthcare abuse at Louisiana’s Angola prison.
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