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First Friday is the top networking event for African American professionals and consistently attracts over 16,000 people each month across North America according to First Fridays United. The First Fridays monthly events originated in 1987 as an outlet for African American professionals to mix, mingle and network.
In his will, he left funds to local charities and to the Charity Hospital, Lafon Old Folks Home, Straight University, and the Sisters of the Holy Family, an order of African-American nuns founded in New Orleans. [2] [3] Lafon also supported the Tribune, the first black-owned newspaper in the South after the American Civil War. [citation needed]
The earliest known, full-length opera composed by a Black American, “Morgiane,” will premiere this week in Washington, DC, Maryland and New York more than century after it was completed.
Although L'Union was the first African American newspaper in Louisiana, it was not the state's first African American periodical: starting in 1843 a successful African American literary magazine was published in New Orleans, titled L'Album Litteraire, Journal des Jeunes Gens.
The NBA Foundation allowed them to share that context through a Zoom interview — the first time Carriere said a grantmaker has given that option. “For 90% of them, they’re looking for that beautiful, happy ending story,” she said. "So it is a struggle. The NBA Foundation is a new relationship. I found that they look at it differently.”
Harold Francis Baquet (July 23, 1958 – June 18, 2015 [1]) was an American photographer and artist who built a career documenting African American political and daily life in his native city.
Wesley Barrow, Jr. was born on November 13, 1900, in West Baton Rough Parish, Louisiana to sharecroppers Wesley, Sr. and Nancie. [3] Finishing school at the 6th grade, Barrow plied his trade as a part time catcher as a young man on various semi-pro and barnstorming teams beginning in 1920.
The Benjamin January mysteries is a series of historical murder mystery novels by Barbara Hambly.The series is named after the main character of the books. The Benjamin January mysteries are set in and around New Orleans during the 1830s and 1840s, and focus primarily on the free black community which existed at that time and place.