Edwin Buggage Editor On the eve of the Mayor’s Annual Mardi Gras Ball Data News Weekly sat down with New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell, where she spoke to Editor, Edwin Buggage and Publisher, Terry Jones […]
By Nsenga K. Burton, Ph.D NNPA Newswire Entertainment and Culture Editor The 2019 Academy Awards have come to an end and #BlackGirlMagic and #BlackBoyJoy were in full effect as some of our favorites walked away […]
By Kelsyn Parker Data News Weekly Contributor Time flies by and memories are often forgotten, however a historical footprint left behind by ancestors leave a rich history of their roots that still thrives today. Documentation […]
By Edward Carter, III Data News Weekly Contributor The Baby Dolls emerged in segregated areas around Uptown, then became a mainstay during Mardi Gras around 1912, and are now known to be one of the […]
Photos by Glenn Summers Data News Weekly Contributor Last Friday our new mayor, Latoya Cantrell, started off the Mardi Gras season with a blast. The Mayor’s Mardi Gras Ball at Gallier Hall was very well […]
By Hannah Joy Shareef Data News Weekly Contributor Residents turned out to see Grammy Award-Winner Irma Thomas who served as the Grand Marshall this year for the Mystic Krewe of Femme Fatale’s Parade along the […]
By Marc H. Morial President & CEO National Urban League “I’m left hanging my head and asking why. Why would anyone, especially an African American man use the symbolism of a noose to make false […]
Photos by Glenn Summers Miss Alicia celebrated her big 60th birthday last Friday, February 22, 2019 with family and friends at The Prime Example Nightclub. The music was pumping, the libation was flowing, and […]
Black Carnival Season Data Staff Edited Report It’s Carnival Time Carnival 2019 is in full gear and Mardi Gras Day is steadily creeping upon us. It is a time where a city steeped in the […]
Leon A. Waters Chair of the Louisiana Museum of African-American History, and Manager of Hidden History Tours This January 12, 2019 marked the 208th Anniversary of Louisiana’s Heroic 1811 Slave Revolt and the restart of […]
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