African-American children can now look at the presidency as a somewhat attainable position, which has a lot to do with the fact that President Obama i...
Patrick Sauer | Posted 10.19.2009 | Comedy
When I was a teenager, I overcame my Hindu upbringing to become a Catholic. Jesus spoke to me and told me Vishnu doesn't vote.
Karen Dalton-Beninato | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living
These are the two tales of New Orleans recovery four years after Hurricane Katrina hit Mississippi and New Orleans levees imploded. What has been done and what is still undone.
Jeffrey Buchanan | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics
The federal government still has a long fight ahead to make good on promises to rebuild a stronger, safer and more equitable Gulf Coast.
Essence | Essence | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home
For those of us outside of the New Orleans area, it's hard to believe that it has been four years since Hurricanes Katrina and Rita touched down on Au...
ProPublica | Sheri Fink | Posted 09.27.2009 | Home
The smell of death was overpowering the moment a relief worker cracked open one of the hospital chapel's wooden doors. Inside, more than a dozen bodie...
Senate Guru | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics
David Vitter does seem to have a recurring problem resisting temptations that cross ethical and legal boundaries, doesn't he?
Google Images | JOHN HECHINGER | Posted 09.21.2009 | Business
Dozens of colleges are up in arms over a new Anheuser-Busch marketing campaign that features Bud Light beer cans emblazoned with local schools' team c...
Senate Guru | Posted 09.20.2009 | Politics
According to his own explicit standard, Republican Senator John Ensign must think that Republican Senator David Vitter should resign.
Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.16.2009 | Entertainment
Though his latest album The Way I See It was released last year, Saadiq still is touring pretty much non-stop. He took a quick break from his schedule for this interview.
Senate Guru | Posted 09.14.2009 | Politics
David Vitter has not answered to his constituents or to the law for his criminal acts, his dishonesty, his hypocrisy, or his shudder-inducing cowardice.
Christina Bellantoni | Posted 08.30.2009 | Entertainment
This weekend, Robert Green slept in his own home in the Lower 9th Ward for the first time since Hurricane Katrina flattened his neighborhood and killed his mother and infant granddaughter.
The Huffington Post | Susan Crile | Posted 08.29.2009 | Politics
Sen. David Vitter (R-La.) on Wednesday fired back at a fellow Republican senator who declared southern conservatives the party's biggest problem. Sen...
Talking Points Memo | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
Check out this statement we just got from the Louisiana Democratic Party, responding to Republican Sen. David Vitter's recent Web ad going after his p...
AP | KEVIN McGILL and BEN EVANS | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics
NEW ORLEANS — Before South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford's romantic disappearance in Argentina and Nevada Sen. John Ensign's fling with a campaign ...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 08.26.2009 | Entertainment
As you're recovering from the joyful overkill that was this year's Comic-Con, take a few moments to catch-up on a handful of the more interesting new press releases.
Eric Alterman | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics
The position of many health reform opponents in Congress is that America has "the finest health care in the world now." I decided to look at just how well we are doing health care wise.
The Guardian | Suzanne Goldenberg, US Environment Correspondent | Posted 07.30.2009 | Green
Between 10,000 and 13,500 square kilometers of coastal lands will drown due to rising sea levels and subsidence by 2100, a far greater loss than previ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics
One thing not many Americans know about the State of Louisiana's legislature is that you are basically allowed to do whatever the hell you want when y...
NYT | Posted 07.23.2009 | Green
In what experts are calling the biggest levee-busting operation ever in North America, the brothers plan to return the muddy river to its ancient floo...
AP | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics
ALEXANDRIA, Va. — Jury selection has begun in Virginia in the trial of a former Louisiana congressman charged with taking bribes. A pool of nea...
Mike Ragogna | Posted 06.24.2009 | Entertainment
You've heard Elvis Costello sing country music before, but not like this. The lad who gave us Almost Blue is quite mature and worldly wise now.
Craig "Meathead" Goldwyn | Posted 06.21.2009 | Style
Barbecue has evolved along disparate paths around the nation, led down these trails by the racial and ethnic immigrants who settled there. Indeed, barbecue sauce is a cultural phenomenon.
AP | Melinda Deslatte | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The Louisiana House unanimously agreed to override Gov. Bobby Jindal's rejection of $98 million in federal stimulus dollars t...
Paul Jenkins | Posted 06.08.2009 | Politics
There is little doubt that the country has made a political left-turn, leaving opportunistic moderates from both parties scrambling to find their cherished middle.
Essence | Essence | Posted 11.16.2009 | Home