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6 days ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Beginning at noon today, Household of Faith Family Worship Church will transform its New Orleans East parking lot into Golgotha, which is located outside the city walls of Jerusalem. A crowd dressed in loose-fitting tunics and Roman soldiers on horseback will scream: “Crucify him! Crucify him!” As a bloody, battered and beaten Jesus is taunted, he will drag a wooden cross. Jesus’ mother Mary will wail as he is struck with whips, nailed to a cross, hoisted between two thieves and crucified.

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Safura Syed

The federal government has terminated two grants for African American history and culture awarded to the Whitney Plantation, a museum aimed at memorializing slavery, as the Trump administration works to strip federal funding from arts and cultural institutions. The Institute of Museum and Library Services ended grants awarded through a program aimed at supporting African American museums last week.

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Arielle Robinson

Several local reproductive justice organizations have teamed up to open a vending machine in New Orleans that will carry emergency contraception and condoms. On Saturday (April 12), at Skeeta Hawk Brewery, representatives from the organizations — the Louisiana Abortion Fund, Women with a Vision, the Reproductive Justice Action Collective and the Birthmark Doula Collective — explained a new project they hope will increase access to reproductive health products.

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Bobbi-Jeanne Misick

The federal government has sufficient grounds to deport Mahmoud Khalil – the former Columbia University student-activist and green-card holder currently detained in Louisiana — an immigration judge found after a tense hearing at the LaSalle immigration court in Jena on Friday (April 11).

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Halle Parker

“How you doin’?” It’s my favorite Southern greeting. Since moving to Louisiana six years ago, it’s rare for me to walk down the street — or go anywhere, really — without hearing the familiar line. I’m annoyingly polite, so it took me a while to understand that, in this city, this question isn’t really a question. Here, “How you doin’?” is the same as saying “hello.” Even after bouncing from neighborhood to neighborhood, finally settling in the Upper 9th Ward, I still get tripped up sometimes.