New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s Address on Removal of Confederate Statues
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February 26, 2018
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February 22, 2018
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Dean Baquet interviews Jay-Z Dean Baquet at The New York Times: Dean Baquet is executive editor of The New York Times, a position he assumed in May 2014. Mr. Baquet serves in the highest ranked position in The Times’s newsroom … Continue reading
February 20, 2018
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At 15:40 into this video, Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah explains, before playing the tune with his group, the genesis of “Ku Klux Police Department.”
February 20, 2018
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…the images are very much an homage to the black South, which is often forgotten, you know, in movements. And I don’t know why, because we keep having to return to the black South, you know, as we should. It’s … Continue reading
February 19, 2018
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February 8, 2018
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There’s a political component to “One Big Self,” of course. By creating present-day inmate portraits that appear to be antiques, Luster slyly suggests that while the rest of the world has undergone social and technological sea changes, incarceration is essentially … Continue reading
February 8, 2018
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A quadroon nurse followed them about with a faraway, meditative air. — Kate Chopin, The Awakening. (2) Kim Vaz-Deville, author of The Baby Dolls: Breaking the Race and Gender Barriers of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Tradition:
February 8, 2018
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Ladies and Men of Unity and Big Chief Monk Boudreaux.
February 8, 2018
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Resa “Cinnamon Black” Bazile of the the Tremé Million-Dollar Baby Dolls.
February 8, 2018
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Ausettua Amor Amenkum, queen of the Yellow Pocahontas and Washitaw Nation.
February 6, 2018
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February 4, 2018
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From NPR: Regine Chassagne of Arcade Fire pays tribute to her Haitian roots with a new Krewe du Kanaval at Mardi Gras this year. The effort is a collaboration with Preservation Hall Jazz band. Go here to listen.
February 1, 2018
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New Orleans music has a whole breath of life in it. It’s music for the mind, body, and soul. — Donald Harrison, Jr.