Category: Culture

Art, Charity, Children, Community, Culture, Life, Memoir, New Orleans, Photography, Urban Neighborhood, Youth

St. Roch Community Youth SoapBox Collective hosted by Making Connections NOLA & Crescent Care Health

On Saturday evening, Mother’s Day Eve while most of you were out shopping for last minute Mother’s Day gifts for the phenomenal women in your lives; several of us from the St. Roch Community sat in a room in support of our talented youth and adults from our neighborhood. We came together in a low lit community room to listen and see the works of our youth entitled” Soapbox Collective,” you may know it by Open Mic for an evening of music, performances, and works of arts that engage the issues of our young people. Continue reading St. Roch Community Youth SoapBox Collective hosted by Making Connections NOLA & Crescent Care Health

NOLA Wear Orange-We Can End Gun Violence
Business, Chronic illness, Culture, Life, Memoir, New Orleans, Photography, Urban Neighborhood

NOLA Wear Orange-We Can End Gun Violence

Life is for living, and we all come into the world to die, but we weren’t birth just to be murdered. It’s a man-made problem, and we can stop it. 

Please support Mom’s Demand Action Nola and Nola Wear Orange if the most you can do is wear an orange ribbon that day! There are more ways to spread awareness than attending. Continue reading NOLA Wear Orange-We Can End Gun Violence

A conversation with a New Orleans Urban Cowboy; Michael A. Hollins aka Dat Ghetto Cowboy
Culture, Memoir, New Orleans, Relationships, Urban Neighborhood

A conversation with a New Orleans Urban Cowboy; Michael A. Hollins aka Dat Ghetto Cowboy

Maybe you were dancing along the streets during a Second Line and noticed a group of men riding their horses up and down the neutral ground ( the “median-” You know, that little strip of land in the middle of a road.) and thought what horses have to do with the Second Line. Tourist aren’t the only ones with these questions. There are plenty of New Orleanians who do not know the full story of how these young men can saddle up and ride through our neighborhoods as if they were in the Wild Wild West. Continue reading A conversation with a New Orleans Urban Cowboy; Michael A. Hollins aka Dat Ghetto Cowboy

When did you fall in love with HipHop? I fell in love with Hiphop when the beat of New Orleans called for Me
Culture, hip-hop, Memoir, Music, New Orleans

When did you fall in love with HipHop? I fell in love with Hiphop when the beat of New Orleans called for Me

There are days when I’m confronted with the heartbreaking fact that my people, native New Orleanians are in search of our very own music in our soul. The heartbeat, the soul of New Orleans plays a tune soft and quiet playing in sync with your heartbeat. What I have found is that many New Orleanians need to see the music, see the beat, see the horn, the drum, the speaker that produces the sound or else they are sure if it’s what they are hearing. Continue reading When did you fall in love with HipHop? I fell in love with Hiphop when the beat of New Orleans called for Me