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- Poison at Play: Unsafe lead levels found in half of New Orleans playgrounds Verite News tested lead levels at more than 80 parks. Even trace amounts of the toxic metal can cause learning problems and behavioral issues in children.
- The looming return of Jim Crow to America’s second Blackest state Louisiana’s political system could soon look more like 1966, the end of the Jim Crow Era, than 2026, and it’s time to acknowledge the full extent of the greatest threat to the American Experiment in decades.
