New Orleans Mayor’s Message on Race

By PETER APPLEBOME May 24, 2017 For nearly two years, New Orleans has been deeply divided over Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s proposal to take down four monuments to Confederate leaders and to a Reconstruction-era insurrection organized by aggrieved whites....

Stories of New Orleans: As Monuments Go Down, Family Histories Emerge

By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON and KATY RECKDAHL May 24, 2017 NEW ORLEANS — The debate over the removal of four Confederate-era monuments has stewed here for nearly two years, longer than the city was under Confederate control, and it has not abated...

From Lofty Perch, New Orleans Monument to Confederacy Comes Down

A statue of Robert E. Lee, ensconced on a 80-foot perch for 133 years, was removed Friday. It was the last of four Confederate monuments taken down in New Orleans.

How a Golf Course Is Reshaping a New Orleans Neighborhood

The newly opened South Course at Bayou Oaks and Columbia Parc, a mixed-income development, rose from the ruins of Hurricane Katrina.