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Historic New Orleans Collection to host panel discussion about second line parades
The Historic New Orleans Collection will host a Zoom discussion on Thursday, May 13, at 7 p.m. among presidents of three social aid and pleasure clubs and owners of businesses that support second line parades. Showing Love: Parades, Mutual Aid, and the Importance of Place is a free event that requires advance registration.
For more than 150 years, African American benevolent associations and social aid and pleasure clubs have supported their members and the broader community by organizing jazz funerals and second line parades. As the parades weave through the city, barrooms and other community spaces host stops, and vendors travel with the second line to provide food and refreshments. This conversation with club presidents and business owners will focus on these important networks within New Orleans’ cultural economy and participants will share stories that celebrate the places and people who mak
New Orleans Baby Dolls Bless The Streets
The New Orleans Baby Dolls held their annual “Blessing of The Streets” on Saturday, May 1, at their annual gathering on the North Peters side of the New Orleans Jazz Museum. The ceremony serves as a welcoming induction for new members and a reunion for women who continue to represent a Mardi Gras masking tradition that has evolved over more than a century.
In her definitive book on the cultural practice,
Walking Raddy: The Baby Dolls of New Orleans, Kim Vaz-Deville chronicles Baby Dolls from their origins in Black Storyville, dating back to 1912. In a 2105 article for
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