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Communities in southeast Louisiana are among those struggling the most to pay monthly electricity bills, overburdened by the cost of energy, according to federal data.
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Decades after his arrest for marching in favor of integration, Judge Calvin Johnson receives apology
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Because of a rapidly declining student population in New Orleans, the city’s public school system has said it will consolidate or close schools. But district officials haven’t decided how to go about it just yet.
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WBHM’s Mary Scott Hodgin talks with Brittany Brown of the Gulf States Newsroom about issues plaguing Alabama and Mississippi prisons.
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After more than a year of constant pressure from a group of Gordon Plaza residents, the New Orleans City Council and the Cantrell administration say relocation from the toxic landfill site is closer than ever. But the crucial questions of when and how remain unanswered.
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The NAACP’s and SPLC’s federal complaint claims that Mississippi didn’t equitably spend its federal COVID-19 relief funds, leaving out communities of color.
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Two women in Uvalde are spearheading an effort to soothe their community with food. Because Uvalde's resident's lives are so intertwined, everyone knows someone affected by the massacre.
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NPR's Michel Martin speaks with Ryan Busse about how he went from being a high-level gun industry executive to an outspoken critic of the National Rifle Association.
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In Texas, the National Rifle Association meets in Houston as families in Uvalde are mourning children slain in a massacre earlier this week.
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Paul Niland, founder of Lifeline Ukraine, gives an update on what he is hearing from Ukrainians, three months into the war.
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The Russian navy on Saturday conducted another test of a prospective hypersonic missile, a demonstration of the military's long-range strike capability amid the fighting in Ukraine.
