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The Chocolate City speech is the nickname that some people have given to the Martin Luther King Jr. Day speech by Ray Nagin, Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, on January 16, 2006. The speech concerned race politics in New Orleans several months after Hurricane Katrina destroyed much of the city.
Clarence Ray Nagin Jr. (born June 11, 1956) is an American former politician who was the 60th Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana, from 2002 to 2010.A Democrat, Nagin became internationally known in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
LaToya Cantrell (née Wilder; born April 3, 1972) [1] is an American politician serving as the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana since May 7, 2018. A Democrat, Cantrell is the first woman to hold the office. Before becoming mayor, Cantrell represented District B on the New Orleans City Council from 2012 to 2018. [2] [3]
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Chocolate City, a 1994 film by Rob Hardy "Chocolate City" (song), a 1975 song from the album Chocolate City; Chocolate City (music label), a Nigeria-based record label; Chocolate City Records, a defunct U.S. record label; Chocolate City speech, a 2006 speech by New Orleans mayor Ray Nagin; Chocolate City, Liberia, a district of Monrovia ...
The post of Mayor of the City of New Orleans (French: Maire de La Nouvelle-Orléans) has been held by the following individuals since New Orleans came under American administration following the Louisiana Purchase — the 1803 acquisition by the U.S. of 828,800 square miles (2,147,000 km 2) of the French province La Louisiane.