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Lena Richard (September 9, [1] 1892 or 1893 - November 27, 1950) was a chef, cookbook author, restaurateur, frozen food entrepreneur, and television host from New Orleans, Louisiana. [2] In 1949, Richard became the first Black woman to host her own television cooking show. [3] Her show aired from October 1949 - November 1950 on local television ...
1997 Times-Picayune Loving Cup Award. Leyah (Leah) Chase[1] (née Lange; January 6, 1923 – June 1, 2019) was an American chef based in New Orleans, Louisiana. An author and television personality, she was known as the Queen of Creole Cuisine, advocating both African-American art and Creole cooking. Her restaurant, Dooky Chase, was known as a ...
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, is a 2008 documentary film directed by Dawn Logsdon and written by Lolis Eric Elie. Featuring a cast of local musicians, artists and writers, the film relates the history of New Orleans ' Tremé neighborhood. [1][2] Detailing the rich existence of the oldest black neighborhood in America ...
Half of the black slaveholders lived in cities rather than the countryside, with most living in New Orleans and Charleston. In particular, New Orleans had a large, relatively wealthy free black population ( gens de couleur ) composed of people of mixed race, who had become a third social class between whites and enslaved blacks, under French ...
The Knot Worldwide, formerly XO Group, The Knot Inc, and WeddingWire, Inc, is a global technology company that provides content, tools, products and services for couples who are planning weddings, organizing a celebration, and navigating pregnancy and parenting. In 2019, The Knot Worldwide was created by a merger between predecessors XO Group ...
Unit. Intelligence Corps. Battles/wars. Korean War. Ernest Nathan "Dutch" Morial (October 9, 1929 – December 24, 1989), was an American politician and a leading civil rights advocate. He was the first black mayor of New Orleans, serving from 1978 to 1986. [1] He was the father of Marc Morial, who served as Mayor of New Orleans from 1994 to 2002.
Antoine Dubuclet. Antoine Dubuclet Jr. (1810 – December 18, 1887) was the State Treasurer of Louisiana from 1868 to 1878. Before the American Civil War, Dubuclet was one of the wealthiest African Americans in the nation. After the war, he was the first person of African descent to hold the office of Louisiana treasurer.
Cloudcroft Visitors Center and Chamber of Commerce on January 20, 2022. Rain and snow fell on Otero County January 19-20, 2022 leavin snow in the higher elevations.