New Orleans

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• 7/7/2020
  

  Unions Are Essential for Eliminating Racism

  A new study finds that unions don't just increase wages and benefits for workers on the job — union membership is also linked to diminished racist attitudes among white workers. If we want to defeat racism, building strong, democratic unions is essential.

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• SOURCE: Arts Fuse
  6/29/2020
  

  Book Reconsideration: “A Confederacy of Dunces” — Still an American Comic Masterpiece?

  A reassessment on the 40th anniversary of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, a novel that many consider one of the funniest ever written by an American.

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• SOURCE: 4WWL New Orleans
  6/11/2020
  

  New Orleans To Create Street Renaming Commission, Change Names 'Honoring White Supremacy'

  The group will be tasked with identifying places to be renamed and create a plan to educate the public on the changes made.

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• SOURCE: New Orleans Public Radio
  6/1/2020
  

  Q&A: Historian Andrew Kahrl On The Segregation History Of Lincoln Beach And Plans To Reopen It

  The long-shuttered African American beach was created to preserve segregation in New Orleans.

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• SOURCE: American Songwriter
  5/15/2020
  

  Up From The Streets, a Vibrant Documentary on the History of New Orleans Music, Is Essential Viewing

  Because of its profound, often tangled and diverse roots, there have been plenty of quality documentaries on the music of New Orleans. This is arguably the best. 

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/5/2020
  

  What Was Saved

  Sarah Broom's memoir "The Yellow House" reconstructs not only her family’s history in New Orleans but also that larger arc of the black experience in the United States.

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• SOURCE: New York Times Magazine
  4/29/2020
  

  "A Terrible Price": The Deadly Racial Disparities of COVID-19 in America

  New Orleans's famed Krewe of Zulu celebrated Mardi Gras as federal and state health officials proclaimed low risk for Coronavirus. In two months, 30 members would have COVID-19 and eight would be dead, illustrating dire and longstanding racial disparities in health in America.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  3/8/2020
  

  New Orleans Cultural Historian Died of Coronavirus, But His Family Only Found Out on the Day of Funeral

  "I want to educate the world about our great culture," Ron Lewis wrote on the museum's website. "How we do this, and why we are so successful at it even though the economics say we ain't supposed to be."

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• SOURCE: BBC News
  3/31/19
  

  New Orleans mayor to apologise for 1891 lynching of Italian-Americans

  John Fratta, from the Order of the Sons of Italy, says the apology is about making people more aware of the episode - particularly because "they don't teach this in schools".

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• SOURCE: The News & Observer
  9-27-18
  

  New Orleans publicly unveiling slave market tour app

  In announcing the app at a news conference, African-American Mayor LaToya Cantrell said the New Orleans Slave Trade Marker and App Project "will let us honor the lives and dignity of those ancestors who were undoubtedly bought and sold here."

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• 6/8/18
  

  Mitch Landrieu: A White Southerner Confronts History

  by Chris Riback

  There was really no way for the city of New Orleans to prepare itself for the next 300 years without dealing with its Confederate statues, he says in an interview.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  5-20-18
  

  Former New Orleans mayor presented with JFK award for removing Confederate statues

  The award, established by members of the Kennedy family to honor JFK after his 1963 assassination, recognizes and celebrates “the quality of political courage that he admired most,” according to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum.

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• SOURCE: The Boston Globe
  3-27-18
  

  New Orleans mayor to receive Profile in Courage Award for removing Confederate monuments

  The John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award, created in 1989, is presented annually to public servants “who have made courageous decisions of conscience without regard for the personal or professional consequences.”

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• SOURCE: Common Dreams
  6-25-17
  

  Monumental Rubbish: With the Statues Torn Down, What Next for New Orleans?

  by Adolph Reed Jr.

  The city is unquestionably better for ridding itself of these symbols of white supremacy, but a focus on the past must not sidestep the need to confront what actually reproduces inequality in the present.

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  7-15-17
  

  Removing the Confederate Monuments In New Orleans Was Only a First Step Toward Righting the Wrongs of History

  by Scott P. Marler

  The real sanitization of the past happened when the statues were put up. To correct the record, a museum of Reconstruction should take their place.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  5-17-17
  

  Yale’s David Blight is asked if New Orleans should rewrite its Civil War legacy

  "One thing that is always an answer is: To build new monuments rather than tear down old ones."

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• SOURCE: NPR
  5-17-17
  

  One More To Go: New Orleans Takes Down Civil War General's Statue

  Workers removed a statue of Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard on horseback from its spot at the entrance of City Park. One more statue remains to be taken down, of Gen. Robert E. Lee.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  5-7-17
  

  Tempers Flare Over Removal of Confederate Statues in New Orleans

  The city has already taken down one monument, but crane companies in the region are receiving threats over the removal of three others.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  4-24-17
  

  New Orleans begins controversial removal of Confederate monuments

  The controversial removal was the first of four scheduled relocations of Confederate memorials in the city, despite weeks of opposition from pro-monument groups and threats against workers.

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• SOURCE: WWLTV
  6-24-15
  

  Landrieu apologizes for city's role in slave trade

  As the debate rages over the confederate flag in parts of the South, Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a forum to talk about race relations in New Orleans and around the country.