Charles Maldonado

1 month ago | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

Stretching three miles from the Mississippi River to New Orleans’ City Park, Esplanade Avenue is today a leafy thoroughfare lined with 19th-century mansions, restaurants, bars, and other businesses. In the evenings, tourists make their way across the avenue from the French Quarter, drinks in hand, ready to take in some jazz at the clubs on Frenchman Street.

1 month ago | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

Where Tulane University currently sits on St. Charles Avenue once was a university that W.E.B. Dubois described as one of the six largest and most important schools educating Black people. Founded in 1870, Leland University started in the basement of Tulane Avenue Baptist Church. Holbrook Chamberlain, a merchant from Brooklyn, N.Y., helped the Baptist Free Mission Society establish the institution. It eventually moved to a large property across from Audubon Park.

1 month ago | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

Photographs and Interview by Camille Farrah LenainWritten by Carla CanningLove Beyond Bars is a series of visual essays about love and incarceration from The Marshall Project. The love story of Larry Moses and Gloria Armour began over a decade before the wrongful conviction that stole nearly 30 years of his life. The New Orleans couple met in their 20s, when his brother — who was dating her sister — secretly arranged an encounter. “We hit it off just right,” says Armour, now 68.

Jan 31, 2025 | veritenews.org | Charles Maldonado

A federal judge on Friday (Jan. 31) temporarily blocked enforcement of a state law, passed last year, that creates a buffer zone around police, making it a criminal offense to come within 25 feet of a working officer after being ordered to step back. The preliminary injunction was issued in response to a lawsuit filed in July by six media companies, including Verite News’ parent company Deep South Today, asking for the law to be blocked.

Jan 14, 2025 | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu |Charles Maldonado

After more than a decade under federal oversight, the New Orleans Police Department will finally have a chance to prove that it can police itself, a judge ruled Tuesday (Jan. 14). Since 2013, the NOPD has been under an expansive consent decree, intended to reshape virtually every aspect of the agency,  with court-appointed monitors closely tracking its progress. Now, U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan’s ruling will allow the department to enter a two-year “sustainment” period — effective immediately.