As Meta’s massive AI data center, the most expensive in the nation, transforms rural Richland Parish, Louisiana's Black and white churches are divided over whether technological progress represents a God-given opportunity or a powerful new force likely to deepen inequities.
If a new federal rule is enacted, the administration could deny research grant applications related to life-saving issues like vaccine safety, climate science, and LGBTQ+ health.
A police search of the 14-year-old’s phone uncovered no proof of a threat, sparking outrage from local activists over the school’s response.
Greg Bright served 27.5 wrongful years in the Louisiana State Penitentiary. He is now facing financial hardship, because his innocence compensation ended in September.
As witnesses from Baton Rouge join a federal lawsuit, a Louisiana immigration judge instructs her staff to allow the public to observe court hearings. Denials were never court policy, she asserts.
Advocates say stricter immigration documentation requirements ignore the realities of abuse, prompting concerns that victims will be denied protection.
Incoming principal Kendall McManus-Thomas returns to Easton as a pathbreaker who grew up in pre-Katrina schools, experienced the disaster and all of its chaos as a displaced high school student, and went on to become the first Black man to head up Franklin High School.
Advocates warn that the changes, part of the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill," will deepen existing racial, gender and class inequities in college access.
"What united us in 1776 was the idea that a country can be defined by a shared belief that freedom and equality are human rights. Without belonging, there can be no true democracy.”
Solar panel misinformation, spread by bots and by neighbors, derailed projects in Iberia Parish promising millions in local tax revenue.
