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Local College Professor Documents COVID-19|WDSU
NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA– One of the peculiar things about hardship is that it can inspire creativity. One local philosophy professor at Southern University at New Orleans is busy making a COVID-19 documentary. Marco Altamirano picked up his camera and decided early in March after New Orleans received it’s first confirmed cases of COVID-19. Marco assigned his students projects based on the affects of the virus and then decided that he needed a project of his own. His documentary is titled “Corona in the Big Easy.” https://w3.cdn.anvato.net/player/prod/v3/anvload.html?key=eyJhdXRvcGxheSI6ZmFsc2UsImV4cGVjdF9wcmVyb2xsIjp0cnVlLCJwbHVnaW5zIjp7ImNvbXNjb3JlIjp The film shows viewers intimate views of businesses dealing with the absence of patrons as well as lonely residents of the city, who deal…
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Louisiana Right to Life’s Diaper Bag Giveaway for NOLA moms today, tomorrow in Lakeview
NEW ORLEANS – NOLA To-Go Baby Bags, containing baby supplies like diapers, wipes, formula, and baby soap, will be given to New Orleans area mothers in need today and tomorrow. The events are from 10 a.m. to noon each day on a first-come, first-served basis. The bags can be picked up curbside at 200 Robert E. Lee Blvd., New Orleans (in Lakeview across the street from Robért Fresh Market), and women will not need to leave their cars. https://www.newsbreakapp.com/n/0P8clqXE?s=a99&pd=05OQgomd
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New Orleans | Adult Website Stripchat Makes $15M Bid for Saints’ Superdome Naming Rights
New Orleans | Adult Website Stripchat Makes $15M Bid for Saints’ Superdome Naming Rights As the New Orleans Saints’ agreement with Mercedes-Benz ends next year, one adult website placed a lucrative bid to become the team’s new naming-rights partner for the Superdome. Per Stefan Bondy of the New York Daily News, Stripchat.com put in a $15 million naming-rights bid for the Superdome on Thursday. “We have been looking into penetrating the sports world, and this is a wonderful opportunity. … I’d like to think that we here at Stripchat embody some of New Orleans’ character and flair,” Stripchat communication director Max Bennett said. A number of adult websites have tried to…
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Eligible Families Encouraged to Apply for Pandemic-EBT Program – The New Orleans Tribune
https://theneworleanstribune.com/2020/05/19/eligible-families-encouraged-to-apply-for-pandemic-ebt-program/ The city of New Orleans is encouraging families of children who receive free or reduced price school meals to apply for the recently approved Pandemic-Electronic Benefit Transfer (P-EBT) program. Gov. John Bel Edwards announced the program last week, adding that more than 600,000 Pre-K through 12th grade students across the state could be eligible for the $285 per child designed to defray the cost of groceries that has soared for many families as schools closed in mid-March in response to COVID-19. The benefit amount works out to about $5.70 a day, the total cost of breakfast and lunch provided at school, for 50 days. Families with one or more…
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Domestic Abuse the Generational Curse that may pass on to Mother and Son
I think about the women who puled herself out of a dark bottomless pit of domestic abuse, hiding and lying to protect her abuser. She survived the hands of violence and finally found the strength and courage to leave an abusive man only to turn around to have her baby boy who loved every faucet of his Mommy to grow up to be that evil man she escapes has to be one of the worst feelings in life. Of all the generational curses, domestic abuse will embed itself in your beautiful baby boy, your son who loves his mother until the reality of the unloving world of you and a…
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New Orleans native Hip-hop Mogul and owner of Cash Money Records, Bryan Birdman Williams of Cash Money Pays it Forward to Uptown NOLA residents
Birdman's decision to pay it forward is based on his personal knowledge of the struggles of those less fortunate in New Orleans. Additionally, the Coronavirus pandemic has changed life as we know it and has added extra stress and anxiety in adults, imagine what's going through the minds and hearts of the children who are fully aware of the severity of this virus. It's possible that Birdman's actions of paying May's rent for the residents of his old stomping grounds will relieve financial hardship and stress if only temporarily. To be honest the $1200 Coronavirus checks are barely enough to cover rents for most New Orleans residents and Birdman has…
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New Orleans Youth signup to receive a Free StudioBE “Home is Where the Art is” Coloring Book & Activity Guide and “Stay at Home” Art Kit
Media Alert For Release: Friday, April 17,2020 Peace Family, BMike of StudioBE is giving New Orleans Youth the opptunity to release some of stressing nad worrying that has been brought on by the Coronavirusby equipping them with the supplies to use their imagination to create life as they see it and desire it to be. to the images he created in a coloringbook and activity guide. StudioB has a limitied quanity of BMike’s coloring book and activity guide entitled, “Home is Where the Art Is” and Home is Where the Art is ” coloring book + activity guide is free of charge and intended for youth of all ages.…
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Stephanie Grace: Help for New Orleans? Bring it on. Mardi Gras shaming? Take it elsewhere. | Columnist Stephanie Grace | nola.com
State and city leaders have been on a mission lately to publicize the extent of the coronavirus crisis in Louisiana and specifically in the New Orleans area, which is experiencing an alarming number of illnesses and deaths and has seen its tourism-reliant economy grind to a halt. This is a good thing. Attention must be paid, and it belatedly is. There’s something else that’s part of the conversation, the assumption — not specifically proven but in retrospect plain on its face — that the highly contagious virus went to town during a Carnival celebration that brought an estimated 1.4 million people from near and far into the streets. — Read on www.nola.com/content/tncms/live/
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DJ Mannie Fresh Live Streaming Tonight & Tomorrow at 7PM CST
The Maison will be sponsoring a live stream with legendary New Orleans icon Mannie Fresh this Friday and Saturday at 7 pm in an effort to raise money and awareness for our out of work staff and our regular musicians. Maison has been Mannie’s official home venue for the last decade. His annual Halloween Baller’s Ball, Ugly Sweater Christmas Party, and Lundi Gras Night DJ set events are epic Frenchmen Street traditions for 10 years running. And these traditions will continue despite these difficult times. We are now offering gift cards that can be redeemed when we eventually reopen. 20% of these sales will go toward sponsoring some of our…
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LOUISIANA LOVE: Brees $5M Covid-19 Donation a True Reflection of His Greatness – Big Easy Magazine
LOUISIANA LOVE: Brees $5M Covid-19 Donation a True Reflection of His Greatness – Big Easy Magazine — Read on www.bigeasymagazine.com/2020/03/26/louisiana-love-brees-5m-covid-19-donation-a-true-reflection-of-his-greatness/
