Today, the Dew Drop Inn is listed among New Orleans’ most endangered sites by the Louisiana Landmark Society. Eight other sites are featured on the endangered list. The society created the list five years ago to draw attention to architecturally and historically significant places in the city that have deteriorated because of neglect, abandonment or vandalism.

“It was really hard my first semester. Really hard,” said Larry Williams eating his breakfast in the Dillard University cafeteria. People didn’t talk to him, he said. They looked at him strangely.

The first alumnus to be named president of a prestigious Catholic school for boys in New Orleans, the Rev. John J. Raphael, understands the challenges the school faces.

After receiving approval in April, demolition of homes began this week to pave the way for new medical centers in downtown New Orleans, and although the biomedical corridor is expected to generate thousands of jobs, it will also displace hundreds of residents and many businesses in a historic district.

In 2000, Brown created BaBa Blankets, named for an African term that means respect. The collective teaches Ghanian women from economically disadvantaged backgrounds how to sew. The women create bedding, dining accessories, clothes, bags and hats that are then sold in the U.S. Brown suspended the business in 2003 to attend graduate school and relaunched BaBa Blankets in 2006.

Nearly 40 oyster fishermen met Tuesday with state officials, lawyers and a representative from an oyster crop insurance company at the University of New Orleans to discuss how the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has impacted their industry.

Five years post-Katrina, the neighborhood known to many as New Orleans’ “black Mayberry” remains a “jack o’ lantern” neighborhood with well-kept renovated homes alternating, more often than not, with blight.

A former administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, William Reilly, and Bob Graham, a former Florida governor and Democratic U.S. senator, will head the seven-person commission, Obama said.

I had a really bad day today. A series of mistakes caused me to lose out on an important story. I’m still replaying the events in my mind, thinking about what I should have done differently. But I learned from this experience and want to share some tips with new and young journalists.

Four months after local authorities launched a new effort to fight domestic violence, the district attorney of Orleans Parish defended the crackdown, saying that stricter monitoring and tougher sentences were crucial to saving lives.