February 25, 2023

Louisiana Illuminator: Louisiana police agencies fail to report why most officers leave, database shows

Louisiana Illuminator: Louisiana police agencies fail to report why most officers leave, database shows. “[The Louisiana Law Enforcement Accountability Database is] a publicly available clearinghouse for records on law enforcement officers across the state. The online database, the first of its kind in Louisiana, includes misconduct claims, citizen complaints, disciplinary proceedings and use of force reports.”

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February 18, 2023

TechCrunch: YouTuber Gets Copyright Strikes For Posting Publicly Streamed Parole Hearings

TechCrunch: YouTuber Gets Copyright Strikes For Posting Publicly Streamed Parole Hearings. ” Interestingly, parole hearings are all publicly streamed in a live format, but the [Louisiana] Parole Board does not make those videos available for viewing outside of the live stream. But one YouTuber, going by the name of Mandoo, records those streams and then adds commentary to them, with the stated purpose of making the system transparent and commenting on the way the justice system works. Mandoo was also handed 52 takedowns of videos on his channel after a local news organization used them in some of its own reporting on a specific parole hearing.”

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February 14, 2023

Before lawsuit, Louisiana senator had a history of blocking critics on Twitter (Louisiana Illuminator)

Louisiana Illuminator: Before lawsuit, Louisiana senator had a history of blocking critics on Twitter . “Long before she was sued for allegedly violating a person’s right to free speech, Sen. Katrina Jackson, D-Monroe, had a history of blocking Twitter users who criticized her. It’s a practice that has caused legal troubles for elected officials in other parts of the country.”

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January 8, 2023

Louisiana Tech University: Special Collections and Archives acquires Bernard J. Stinnett Collection

Louisiana Tech University: Special Collections and Archives acquires Bernard J. Stinnett Collection. “The Special Collections and Archives at Louisiana Tech University has acquired a collection of letters, memorabilia, artwork, and photographs of former Camp Ruston U.S. Army clerk Bernard J. Stinnett, courtesy of his daughter Hester Stinnett. Louisiana’s Camp Ruston was one of the largest prisoner-of-war (POW) camps established by the U.S. during World War II, located on the western outskirts of the town of Grambling.”

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September 17, 2022

NOLA: Nobody knows as much about New Orleans’ street tiles as this guy. And he’s worried.

NOLA: Nobody knows as much about New Orleans’ street tiles as this guy. And he’s worried.. “For more than a century, street corners in the older sections of the Crescent City have been marked with names made from embedded alphabet tiles. The Wordle of street names lends a certain genteel, old-fashioned charm to any stroll. Like beignets and Mardi Gras beads, they are among New Orleans’ iconic images, a signature of the City That Care Forgot. But these days, the tiles may be in trouble. With widespread street repairs unfolding around them, tile-lovers are concerned that when the dust settles and the cement trucks finally retreat, many of the tiles will permanently disappear with them.”

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September 12, 2022

NOLA: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, historian renowned for research into Louisiana slavery, dies at 93

NOLA: Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, historian renowned for research into Louisiana slavery, dies at 93. “Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, a New Orleans-born historian who revolutionized teaching about slavery in Louisiana by applying computer technology to information she unearthed in musty archives and courthouse records throughout the state, died Monday at her home in Guanajuato, Mexico. She was 93.”

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May 29, 2022

ProPublica: She Warned the Grain Elevator Would Disrupt Sacred Black History. They Deleted Her Findings.

ProPublica: She Warned the Grain Elevator Would Disrupt Sacred Black History. They Deleted Her Findings.. “Experts in the field of cultural resource management say that companies sometimes look away from findings or are asked to change them to make their developer bosses happy. The field is now dominated by for-profit firms like Gulf South that developers hire to comply with the federal law. As a result, these firms can operate not as preservation gatekeepers but as lock-pickers for private industry intent on development.”

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February 3, 2022

Gambit: Tune into recordings of Vernon ‘Dr. Daddy-O’ Winslow, New Orleans’ first Black radio DJ

Gambit: Tune into recordings of Vernon ‘Dr. Daddy-O’ Winslow, New Orleans’ first Black radio DJ. I’ve been listening to a lot of New Orleans bounce lately so I’m delighted to find this. “One night in 1949, Vernon Winslow, a Black man, took to the New Orleans radio airwaves — and was fired…. Still, one night he hosted a show and became the city’s first Black radio disc jockey. And he was noticed: Within just a few months, rival radio station WWEZ AM hired Winslow to host ‘Jivin’ with Jax,’ a full-length radio program sponsored by Jackson Brewery and the city’s first program to feature a Black DJ.”

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January 27, 2022

Johns Hopkins University: Project will digitize colonial records pertaining to enslaved and free Black people in Louisiana

Johns Hopkins University: Project will digitize colonial records pertaining to enslaved and free Black people in Louisiana. “Johns Hopkins University historian Jessica Marie Johnson has received a $120,000 planning gra’”Kinship and Longing: Keywords for Black Louisiana’ project. The grant will support a collaboration of scholars and graduate students toward developing a digital, open-source, searchable edition of some 200,000 French and Spanish colonial records documenting enslaved and free people of African descent in Louisiana between 1714 and 1803.”

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January 25, 2022

Bogalusa Daily News: Hicks Foundation announces new digital archive

Bogalusa Daily News: Hicks Foundation announces new digital archive. “The Robert ‘Bob’ Hicks Foundation is pleased to announce that a new digital collection of primary source materials about the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement and early Bogalusa history is now available online at the Louisiana Digital Library… The foundation will also soon release a 12-sided historical brochure, ‘Why Bogalusa Matters,’ which introduces some of the main events of the Bogalusa Civil Rights Movement and offers a guide to historic Bogalusa sites for the benefit of educators and visitors to Bogalusa.”

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January 6, 2022

4WWL: Visitation for Louisiana-run prisons suspended indefinitely due to COVID

4WWL: Visitation for Louisiana-run prisons suspended indefinitely due to COVID. ” The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has suspended prisoner visitation indefinitely starting Thursday. According to the DOC, the precautionary measure was made after the recent surge in COVID-19 cases. The department also suspended volunteers from entering any of the eight state-run prisons.”

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December 30, 2021

Gov. Edwards announces new COVID daily infections record in Louisiana; warns against New Year’s parties (Shreveport Times)

Shreveport Times: Gov. Edwards announces new COVID daily infections record in Louisiana; warns against New Year’s parties. “Gov. John Bel Edwards urged Louisianans to limit their New Year’s celebrations to nuclear family gatherings and follow new recommendations to wear masks and get vaccinated as he announced a record number of new daily COVID cases in Louisiana during a virtual press conference Thursday…. Edwards said the Louisiana Department of Health reported 12,400 new COVID cases on Thursday. Hospitalizations have increased by 268 percent since Dec. 17.”

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December 27, 2021

Louisiana Department of Health: COVID-19 hospitalizations double in one week amid Omicron surge

Louisiana Department of Health: COVID-19 hospitalizations double in one week amid Omicron surge. “The Louisiana Department of Health announces that 449 people in Louisiana are hospitalized with COVID-19 – a figure that has doubled in the last week. The last time we reported this many COVID-19 hospitalizations was mid-October, as we came down from our third and then-worst COVID-19 surge. Eighty percent of people currently hospitalized with COVID-19 are not fully vaccinated.”

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