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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]
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.
The Plain Truth Of New Orleans: 1969 [75] 1970 [75] Bimonthly newspaper [75] LCCN sn89059088; OCLC 7366271; New Orleans: The Republican Courier: 1899 [76] 1900 [76] Weekly [76] LCCN sn83016564; OCLC 2806334, 9908251; New Orleans: The Louisiana Republican: 1881 [77] 1882 [77] Weekly [77] LCCN sn89059142; OCLC 19537223; In English and French. [77 ...
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The Louisiana Weekly is a weekly newspaper published in New Orleans, Louisiana. It emphasizes topics of interest to the African-American community, especially in the New Orleans area and south Louisiana. It has an estimated weekly circulation of 6,500. [1] The Louisiana Weekly was established by the C.C. Dejoie family in 1925. [2]
New Orleans Data News Weekly 1 June 2010: n. pag. Nola Beez. Web. 7 Apr. 2013. Crutcher, Michael. Tremé; Race and Place in a New Orleans Neighborhood. Athens: The University of Georgia Press, 2010. Print. "Faubourg Tremé - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans." Faubourg Tremé - The Untold Story of Black New Orleans.
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The restaurant opened in 1939 as a sandwich shop on Clairborne Avenue. It moved to Orleans Avenue in 1941 by owners Emile and Dooky Chase and five years later, their son and daughter-in-law Edgar "Dooky" Chase Jr. and Leah Chase took over. They "turned the sandwich shop into one of the few upscale establishments available for the city's African ...