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Louis Armstrong Park is a 32-acre (130,000 m 2) park located in the Tremé neighborhood of New Orleans, Louisiana, just across Rampart Street from the French Quarter. In the 1960s a controversial urban renewal project leveled a substantial portion of the Tremé neighborhood adjacent to Congo Square. After a decade of debate, the City created ...
In July 1968, CBS opened a new studio and office facility in downtown St. Louis to house the KMOX stations, which until that point had been operating from separate locations (KMOX radio was headquartered near Forest Park). [12] Channel 4 moved from Cole Street into the new facility, known as One Memorial Drive, and remained there until December ...
Louis Armstrong Park—the site of Congo Square and home of the New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park; Eagle Saloon & Odd Fellows Hall, this 19th century lodge building is perhaps the most important surviving building from the early days of jazz, having been the base for the pivotal Eagle Band and where "the father of Jazz" Buddy Bolden, Freddie Keppard, Buddie Petit, Louis Armstrong, and ...
New Year’s celebrations in New Orleans turned tragic early Wednesday after a terrorist mowed down revelers on the city’s iconic Bourbon Street, killing at least 15 and injuring dozens of ...
The National Association of Black Journalists assailed the error, calling the term “outdated, offensive and racist,” while noting St. Louis’ population is 43% black.
The suspect in the truck attack that killed 14 and injured dozens in New Orleans on New Year's had traveled to Egypt in 2023 for about a month, his half-brother told ABC News. Shamsud-Din Jabbar ...
After a decade of debate over the land, the City turned it into Louis Armstrong Park, which incorporates old Congo Square. Starting in 1970, the City organized the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and held events annually at Congo Square. As attendance grew, the city moved the festival to the much larger New Orleans Fairgrounds. In the late ...
Federal and local authorities are urgently sweeping the French Quarter and the rest of New Orleans on the eve of one of its biggest events of the year, the Sugar Bowl college football game, to see ...