New Orleans

At least 10 people were killed and 35 others injured when a man plowed his truck into a crowd of people celebrating the New Year in New Orleans' popular French Quarter, local officials said Wednesday.

Nearly 30 years ago, creators of Essence Magazine came to New Orleans to celebrate the publication's 25th anniversary with a salute to Black women highlighting culture, empowerment conversations with the nation's thought leaders and, of course, music.

New Orleans was the place where the Mutinous Women could reinvent themselves most strikingly

Once silenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival opened Friday for the first time in three years _ a long awaited 2022 revival that holds echoes of 2006 when the annual celebration of music and culture went on even after Hurricane Katrina.

The Ankara Jazz Festival returned to the Turkish capital after the COVID-19 pandemic forced a year of hiatus.

More than 1 million homes and businesses in Louisiana and Mississippi, including all of New Orleans, were left without power on Monday, as Ida, one of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the US mainland, pushed through on Sunday, AP reported. The damage was so extensive that officials warned it could be weeks before the power grid was repaired.

Strippers shouting “my body is not illegal” marched on Feb. 1 to protest the closure of clubs in and around Bourbon Street, the main artery of New Orleans’ raucous nightlife district.

A pickup truck driven by a man who appeared to be "highly intoxicated" plowed into a crowd of spectators watching the main Mardi Gras parade in New Orleans on Feb. 25, sending more than 20 people to the hospital, police said.

At least 28 people have been injured, 12 in "critical condition" after a truck crashed into a dense crowd of participants of the Endymion parade in New Orleans, police said. The car's driver has been arrested.

"Initial reports show so far about a dozen people are in critical condition," New Orleans police said in a statement.