This story was originally published in an ongoing partnership with The Gambit. The following is that article, verbatim. For two months this past spring, Tajh Watts used his bed as a school desk, propping two laptops against pillows each morning as he hunched over, diligently taking notes under the blue glow of his neon lights… Read More »Can schools make a…
Story and photos by Mark Joseph, senior at St. Augustine High School and Derek Dunbar, senior at St. Augustine High School. The Saints offense simply showed up with a different type of swagger today against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. At…
Story and photos by Phillip Petty III, junior at St. Augustine High School and Chris Taylor, junior at St. John the Baptist STEM Magnet High School. The Saints were unable to find the end zone, but that wasn’t necessary for…
Story by Taylor Pittman, junior at McDonough 35 High School. Anderson Cooper, Barbara Walters, Diane Sawyer, Hunter S. Thompson, and Bob Woodward—all names that pop up when you Google “popular journalist in the United States.” Among Black people, there are…
Story by Jacklyn Leo, 10th Grader at Lusher Charter School On August 2nd, the New Orleans 48 Hour Film Project held the first day of its 13th annual red carpet screenings in the Central Business District. The hall of the…
Story by Derek Dunbar, senior at St. Augustine High School. Sadly, the Baby Cakes are on their way out of town for good. Alongside their 22 years in the Big Easy, the Cakes had their ups and downs with the…
Story by Wyatt Vaughn, freshman at Nicholls State University. It’s easy to mistake the South’s passion for college football as merely a trend. Or a byproduct of fair-weather fans following the recent successes of southern teams. But college football has…
Story by Chris Taylor, junior at St. John the Baptist Magnet STEM High School Program As you walk into a Major League Gaming (MLG) event, with fog at your feet and lasers glaring in your eyes, you can feel the…
Story by Lana Lawson, Sophomore at International High School Back in July I attended the New Beginnings School Foundation meeting about the controversy of Kennedy High School editing students’ scores. I walked in and grabbed a chair and a bag…
Story by Hannah Darcey, junior at Mount Carmel Academy. It was the night of the Endymion parade. But five miles away from the bright colors, throws, and beads of Mardi Gras, David W. Hoover, theater director at the University of…
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