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Usher Developing TV Series Based on Jazz Age Origins
The Grammy-winning singer is set to executive produce the new series, Storyville.
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New Orleans School Board Reverses 100-Year Old Jazz Ban in Public Schools
The school board recently voted to remove a long-standing ban on jazz music and dancing in public schools
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Anthony Mackie to Open 20-Acre Film and TV Studio in New Orleans
‘The influx of productions will not only bring economic growth but job opportunities!’ New Orleans Mayor LaToya Cantrell said.
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Ever Optimistic, Essence Fest Announces Its Return to New Orleans in 2022
The live gathering, themed ‘It’s the Black Joy for Me!’, will be the popular festival’s first in-person event since its 25th anniversary celebration in 2019.
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Category 4 Hurricane Ida Expected to Make Landfall in Louisiana Sunday Afternoon
This comes 16 years after Hurricane Katrina struck the coast in 2005.
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Big Willy Weekend: Will Smith Pays for Entire 4th of July Fireworks Celebration in New Orleans
The ‘Bad Boys for Life’ star is currently in NOLA filming a new movie after previously pulling production out of Georgia.
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5 American Cities That Thrive on Black Culture
From museums and art galleries to delicious food experiences, there’s so much to discover.
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Let's Electric Slide Down This Newly Announced List of Performances at Essence Fest 2021
Y’all ready to bust out your linen suits for Essence Fest 2021? In February, we announced that Essence would be going the hybrid route for this year’s New Orleans-based festival—including both in-person and virtual programming. So, that means you can show off your linen suit on social media from the comfort of your home or…
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After Going Virtual in 2020, Essence Festival Announces a 'Hybrid' Format for 2021
The Girls Trip must go on—primarily online. After a year of lockdowns, we could all use a getaway, and miss our yearly turn up sojourn to the world’s biggest, Blackest and most bodacious family reunion imaginable in New Orleans (more than half a million people over July 4th weekend, to be exact). However, an ongoing…
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Black Man Serving Life Sentence for $20 Marijuana Sale Released From Prison
A Black man in Louisiana who was serving a life sentence over two bags of weed worth only $20 has finally been freed from prison after 12 years. I didn’t need any further proof that the American justice system is far from just, but a life sentence? For what may have barely been an eighth?…