The Louisiana Weekly

"The Louisiana Weekly" is a weekly newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. It covers topics of interest to the African American community, especially in the New Orleans area and south Louisiana. It has a circulation of 5,854.cite news
url=http://www.texaspress.com/messenger/september05/katrina0905.htm
title=Coastal newspapers in limbo from Katrina's wake
work=The Messenger Online
publisher=Texas Press Association
date=September 2005
accessdate=2006-05-03 ]

"The Louisiana Weekly" was established by the C.C. Dejoie family in 1925. [cite web
title=Journey for Justice: Chronology
work=Louisiana Public Broadcasting
url=http://www.lpb.org/programs/journey/chronology.htmlhttp://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=The_Louisiana_Weekly&action=edit
accessdate=2006-05-03] The paper has covered social justice issues including "education, the environment, politics and protest," [cite web
title=About Us
work=The Louisiana Weekly
url=http://www.louisianaweekly.com/about.html
accessdate=2006-05-03] including such diverse topics as the Black Panther Party [cite news
first=Worth K.
last=Hayes
title=No Service Too Small: the political significance of the survival programs of the New Orleans Black Panther Party
work=XULAneXUS
publisher=Xavier University
date=Spring 2004
url=http://www.xula.edu/xulanexus/issue3/BBP.html
accessdate=2006-05-03] and the threat of hydrofluoric acid contamination at a New Orleans area refinery. [cite news
first=Glynn
last=Wilson
url=http://www.louisianaweekly.com/weekly/news/articlegate.pl?20031020k
title=Hydrofluoric acid makes for "danger zone" around plant
work=The Louisiana Weekly
date=2003-10-20
accessdate=2006-05-03 ] The paper also has a Spanish-language page aimed at south Louisiana's significant Central American population.

Publication of the "Louisiana Weekly" was interrupted (in print only [cite web
title=Louisiana Weekly – Your Community. Your Newspaper.
work=The Louisiana Weekly
url=http://www.blackpressusa.com/news/Article.asp?SID=3&Title=National+News&NewsID=15018
accessdate=2006-05-03] ) because of the flooding caused by Hurricane Katrina in August and September 2005. The first post-Katrina issue appeared on 24 October 2005. [cite web
title=Black Publisher Remembered for Telling 'Courageous Truth'
work=BlackPressUSA.com
url=http://www.louisianaweekly.com/
accessdate=2008-04-05]

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