Did pandemic upend Louisiana’s progress in battling HIV?

For decades, Louisiana was one of the worst states for HIV transmission, and in 2015, healthcare leaders created a plan to try to end the epidemic.

News, Coronavirus Pandemic, Public HealthKatherine MitchellApril 29, 2022LSU Manship School News Service, Louisiana, HIV, Covid, AIDS, testing, PrEP, Crescent Care, New Orleans

Louisiana expanded Medicaid by a Democratic governor’s executive order. Conservatives in the ‘ruby-red’ state have embraced it.

FRANKLIN, La. — As Mississippians struggle over the merits of Medicaid expansion, patients to the west in ruby-red Louisiana are already seeing the benefits after Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards implemented the program five years ago.

Mississippi News, News, Mississippi SpotlightKatherine MitchellMarch 3, 2021Mississippi Medicaid, federal money, expand coverage, medicaid expansion, Mississippi Spotlight, Unsteady Pulse, medicaid coverage, Louisiana, Louisiana Medicaid, Sen. Fred Mills, Governor John Bel Edwards, Dr. Gary Wiltz, health insurance, ACA

In Ferriday, La., an ‘outlaw town,’ the Deacons took a stand

FERRIDAY, La. -- David Whatley, the first black student to integrate Ferriday High in 1966, returned from tortuous days at school only to face just as many threats outside his home.

Deacons for Defense and Justice defied segregation

A dozen times over three decades, Claiborne Parish resident Frederick Douglass Lewis had tried to register to vote in Louisiana, only to be denied time after time.