2+ hour, 32+ min ago   (526+ words) On an average school night in the Gardere neighborhood of East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana, a bunch of rowdy children run around tables in front of the Gardere Initiative's building. Executive Director Murelle Harrison is usually among them, playing…...

3+ mon, 3+ week ago   (487+ words) 1970s San Francisco was a place where a young girl and her widowed, gay father could live a fun, unconventional life. That was writer Alysia Abbott's childhood before the AIDS epidemic. She wrote about it in Fairyland: A Memoir of My…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago   (980+ words) Investigators found the Jackson Parish Jail violated state rules 83 times between July and February " almost 12 times more than the state's second-worst lockup. Last September, a young person at Louisiana's Jackson Parish Jail tried to kill himself, according to documents obtained…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (702+ words) Aid contracts will be continuously reviewed, she said: "We are in a constant, regular audit. That will always be the case now." Melody Schreiber is a journalist and editor of What We Didn't Expect: ... After the Trump administration's cancellation of…...