New Orleans

Ronald Gasser is accused of fatally shooting Joe McKnight on December 1 during a road rage incident in Terrytown, Louisiana.

The accused shooter faces a life sentence. He’s expected to argue self-defense.

Chase's restaurant was a popular staple in the Treme neighborhood––frequented by political figures from Martin Luther King Jr. to President Barack Obama.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu wants to settle several long-standing civil rights claims against the city over several notorious episodes of police violence in the days after Hurricane Katrina 11 years ago.

It's been a month since NFL star Will Smith was shot and killed following a car accident in New Orleans, but it feels like yesterday for the people he left behind.

A city contractor in New Orleans was the victim of a vicious vandalism attack after he discovered that his $200,000 Lamborghini was set ablaze. Although police didn’t officially make the connection, it is believed that the vehicle was torched because the contractor was hired to remove a series of statues related to the Confederacy. HuffPost Black […]

New Orleans lawmakers are in the midst of considering whether to break with its Confederate past by removing longstanding monuments

Sixteen people were shot in a hail of gunfire Sunday night at Bunny Friend Park in New Orleans. According to reports, multiple people began firing shots into a crowd of more than 300.

A New Orleans pastor was arrested on Wednesday for sexually assaulting female relatives as young as five years old. According to The Times-Picayune, Reverend Dr. Sherman Smith, 56, was booked on charges of molestation of a juvenile or a person with a mental or physical disability, aggravated rape of a victim under the age of 13, […]

Celebrated R&B musician Allen Toussaint has died at the age of 77 after suffering a heart attack in Madrid, Spain. Spanish newspaper El Mundo reported…

In this special edition of the NewsOne Top 5 we take a look at the top news stories during a summer that gave us plenty to talk about and reflect on. Read more about them, below.

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