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A Baseball Town on the Brink: Louisiana Lightning
Alexandria’s Bringhurst Field, the oldest surviving ballpark in Louisiana & the cathedral of the raucous Evangeline League, was the scene of one of the…
 • Lamar White, Jr.
A Long Way from Tunis: The Vieux Carre Courier's 1976 Series on Carlos Marcello
50 years ago, the gritty New Orleans weekly published Mike Grangnani's four-part series on the legendary mob boss. It's never appeared online, until…
 • Lamar White, Jr.
Pharmland: How a Small-Town Opioid Booster Became a Big-Time Public Health Threat
Ralph Abraham’s forgotten record on opioids, Medicaid, race, and self-dealing is far more alarming than his anti-vaccine posturing.
 • Lamar White, Jr.
Edwin Edwards & the Machinery of Suspicion
In a single, heavily redacted volume, FBI memoranda chart the federal government’s long, uneasy pursuit of Edwin Edwards—revealing as much about their…
 • Lamar White, Jr.
Same Book? Same Book. When Deadlines Failed & Deep Research Prevailed
Troves of new declassified files about Carlos Marcello, including 2,524 pages released this year, freed me from the tyranny of timelines & forced me to…
 • Lamar White, Jr.
Twenty Bayou Brief Stories That Still Matter
A curated tour of investigations and essays that shaped the conversation in Louisiana—brought to Imagine Louisiana’s readers with fresh context and…
 • Lamar White, Jr.
Imagine Louisiana
Journalism isn’t just about chasing today’s headlines. It’s about correcting yesterday’s lies and imagining tomorrow’s possibilities.

Imagine Louisiana

Louisiana is too consequential to be misunderstood. Acclaimed Louisiana writer Lamar White, Jr. digs into power, memory, corruption, culture, and the myths people profit from repeating.
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