The City of New Orleans is planning to build a homeless shelter in MidCity at the old NOPD Crime Lab location. New Orleans Councilwoman Lesli Harris calls plans for a new non congregate shelter "a win ...

Jackson Square, designed as military parade grounds, was known as the Place d’Armes during the French colonial period and ...

This is the introduction to a five-story project, The Lens’ Embracing Katrina Narratives project. Last summer, in July, a group of influential New Orleanians gathered, with hopes of preparing the city ...

Ruth Maclean, New York Times West Africa bureau chief, explains how the rebels and their patrons in Rwanda are profiting from the conflict.