Why “12 Years a Slave” Will Always Matter to Louisiana
From the archives of CenLamar
Originally published on November 4, 2013
Culture and History post archive: Page 4
The Once and Future Kingfish: In Retirement, Sen. Russell Long Thought of a Final Act, Governor.
This is the story of how Louisiana’s retiring senior U.S. Senator might have become the third Long to be governor in only 60 years.
In Louisiana, Confederate Monuments Have No Place In Front of a Courthouse. Remove All of Them. Now.
These monuments don’t belong where people of all races go to seek justice, fairness and equality, because we all can agree that the Confederacy never stood for that.
1972: Louisiana’s Most Turbulent Year on the Hill
It’s shaping up to be a strange year in American politics. But for the state of Louisiana, 1972 was a year whose tumult gives the chaos of 2017 a run for its money.
Still Krazy After All These Years: Michael Tisserand on George Herriman, Racial Politics in New Orleans, and Great Comics
In a New York Times op-ed in May, New Orleans author Michael Tisserand wrote about the Confederate monuments that at the time were yet ...
I Spent A Month Listening To Louisianians. Here’s What I Learned.
The progressive movement in Louisiana is more organized now than it has been in decades.
LA State Sen. Beth Mizell: “No Real Citizen” Wanted White Supremacist Monuments Torn Down
According to Mizell, “no real citizen” wanted those statues removed, which, incidentally, is the same thing that Jefferson Davis and Robert E. Lee thought about the citizenship of African-Americans.
Why Southern Democrats Struggle With The Politics of Abortion
Democrats–particularly Democrats outside of the South–do a tremendous disservice to the party when they insist that pro-life candidates should not have a seat inside of our Big Tent.
Monumental Task Farce: The Last Stand of the Lost Cause
The e-mails received by Lt. Gov. Nungesser’s office reveal a much more complicated truth about the real power behind the opposition and about New Orleans itself.
Fathers and Sons: Forging a Blood Oath One Bead At a Time
Text by Ben Arnon and Erika Alexander Photos by Ben Arnon Blackness in America is a tangled web, often woven from shallow narratives and clichéd ...
