Mourners gathered online and in-person at the Lancaster County Convention Center on Saturday morning to see the School District of Lancasterâs first Black principal laid to rest.
Leon âBuddyâ Glover, who died Feb. 11 of a massive stroke at 71, was a âbig bearâ who sought to bridge gaps in society, acting as a father figure and role model to many, Rev. Dr. Louis A. Butcher said in his eulogy.
âBuddy looked around and said âthereâs other gaps in our society,â Butcher said. âThereâs other gaps that need somebody to stand and make sure itâs healed and that itâs mended and that the walls around them are built up.ââ
NEW ORLEANS
As a frigid dawn broke here on Fat Tuesday better known as Mardi Gras the streets of Treme were unusually hushed.
No skeletons tromped through the historically Black neighborhood pounding on drums and knocking on doors to wake up residents and warn them of their mortality, a ritual that its practitioners say dates to 1819.
As a trickle of locals and tourists approached the Backstreet Cultural Museum, a tiny treasure trove of Black culture that is an early gathering point for the Northside Skull and Bone Gang, they found the front door shut and the lights off.
“No events will be scheduled on Mardi Gras day here due to COVID restrictions,” said a note scrawled on the porch. “Sorry.”
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William Henry Dorsey was an information hoarder. An African American of means who lived in 19th-century Philadelphia, Dorsey suffered from a “malady” that afflicted others of his era: archive fever. He spent much of his long life he was born in 1837 and died in 1923 clipping newspaper articles and pasting them into one or another of nearly 400 scrapbooks, organized by topic.
Dorsey’s scrapbooks represent a bricolage of one man’s far-ranging interest in African American history and culture. He clipped articles mainly from northern newspapers, Black and white, including some extremely rare publications. The scrapbooks hold articles on Black emigration schemes, fraternal orders, actors, and centenarians who lived through slavery. Dorsey devoted one scrapbook to an 1881 North Carolina convention of Black Republicans, one of many such gatherings at which African Americans envisioned post-emancipation political futures. He devoted another scrapbook to lynchings,
School, Church Reborn as Mixed-Income Complex: Case Study
Units in the new building are contemporary, while the church apartments incorporate some of the historical elements of the original building. Feb052021
Sacred Heart at St. Bernard in New Orleans, La., is a 53-unit, affordable and mixed-income project that was a collaboration between Providence Community Housing, a nonprofit affordable housing developer in New Orleans, and Columbia Residential, a development firm based in Atlanta.
Completed in October 2018, the project brought desperately needed affordable housing to the Seventh Ward of New Orleans through the adaptive reuse of the former Our Lady of the Sacred Heart parish site, which included a church and school built in 1955 that was vacant and blighted.
Jean Lephare And DeeLow Diamond Man Create Beats For The Masters
Jean Lephare And DeeLow Diamond Man Create Beats For The Masters
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Next Sunday, Feb. 7, Leonard Fournette and Tyrann Mathieu will represent their respective teams, the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and defending Super Bowl champions the Kansas City Chiefs, in Super Bowl LV. As Louisiana natives and LSU alumni, they will also have “The Boot” on their backs. In particular, they represent New Orleans’ Seventh Ward, an area where a lot of talent is emerging.
But the Seventh Ward is also home to cousins John “Jean Lephare” Fitch and Daryl “DeeLow Diamond Man” Harleaux, who have been grinding for years in the studio. The music producers struck gold last year, providing tracks for New Orleans native Lil Wayne’s Grammy-nominated and Billboard Chart-topping album, “Funeral.” Their catalog is pegged with A-list rappers that include other