Michelle Obama during a live recording of her podcast in 2025. Photo: Arturo Holmes/Getty Images
📖 Michelle Obama will headline Essence Fest this summer. She'll talk about her book, "The Look," at the Caesars Superdome. (Essence)
See the music headliners. Single-night tickets go on sale today.
⚖️ Chelsey Richard Napoleon is suing Mayor Helena Moreno and Council President JP Morrell in hopes of blocking the appointment of an interim clerk of court. (WWL)
She and state AG Liz Murrill argue the position belongs to Napoleon after lawmakers consolidated the civil and criminal clerk offices.
Calvin Duncan, who lost his seat in the consolidation, filed a civil rights lawsuit to overturn the law. (Verite)
📹 A Missouri man is accused of making IED instructional videos, which were used by Shamsud-Din Jabbar in his Bourbon Street attack. (Press release)
🎷 The proposed music museum is inching forward. Organizers finalized a lease in the River District, but they still need to secure nearly $172 million in funding. (The Times-Picayune🔒)
🔎 Former Mayor LaToya Cantrell needed an NOPD bodyguard for "physical and emotional protection" during her term, new court filings say, because she "was most vulnerable and justifiably felt that way at all times." (Fox 8)
🏟️ Morris F.X. Jeff Stadium, the home field for Edna Karr and L.B. Landry high schools, is getting upgraded. Turf from Super Bowl LIX in New Orleans will be used, along with $600,000 in private and city funding. (Press release)
🇮🇹 The ancient Roman grave marker found in an Uptown yard has been repatriated to Italy, the FBI says. (Press release)
