The anonymous owner of the Instagram account la_sessionistas has trekked forward with the mission to document the fashion trends, colorful clothes, outlandish shoes and funky suits of the 2023 Louisiana Legislative Session.

Lauren Cheramie
These days, the New Orleans Gay Men's Chorus is more about community than it is making a political statement.
Maxine Crump is the founder, president, and CEO of Dialogue on Race Louisiana. She led the design of its core program, the Dialogue on Race Series.
Fumy Rita was appointed as the executive director of the Louisiana Gulf Coast Oil Exposition, LAGCOE, in January. She previously served as the…
In 2016, Sean Adams was one of five students in the first cohort of the Bridge to Independence, a two-year certificate program at Nicholls Sta…
The Advocate's features staff tracked down 17 valedictorians from Louisiana high schools from the class of 2003 to see how their lives have gone since they graduated high school 20 years ago. Through the first week in June, we will publish individual profiles of the 2003 valedictorians, now approaching the age of 40.
Jennifer Maggio is an author, national speaker and chief executive officer of The Life of a Single Mom — an organization founded in 2011 that …
After turning her body inside out and upside down with an exhausting battery of tests, two rounds of intrauterine insemination treatments, tra…