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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.
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.
L'Union was the first African-American newspaper in the Southern United States. [a] The newspaper was based in New Orleans, Louisiana, and was published from 1862 to 1864.. Articles in L'Union were written in the French language, with the newspaper's primary readership being free people of color in the New Orleans area, especially in the faubourgs Marigny and Tr
The original site of the New Orleans Tribune, at 527 Conti Street, New Orleans, is commemorated with an historical marker. Roudanez's life has been explored in a short documentary Hidden History (2016). A publication by the same name was founded in 1985 [9] and is published by McKenna Publishing Co.
The first enslaved people from Africa arrived in Louisiana in 1719 on the Aurore slave ship from Whydah, only a year after the founding of New Orleans. [7] Twenty-three slave ships brought black slaves to Louisiana in French Louisiana alone, almost all embarking prior to 1730. [8]
Amazon workers in more than 20 countries including the U.S. plan to strike and hold protests between Black Friday, November 29, and Cyber Monday, which falls on December 2, according to the ...
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.
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