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New Orleans, 1955, Liberty Circle.

Civil War Memorial behind the Street Car on Howard Avenue.

If you were on Tumblr around 2010 back when Black Swan released you know this meme was everywhere. Never underestimate the impact of Kobe Bryant.

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Donald Glover’s seven-person creative collective helped build an entertainment industry in and of themselves. What’s next? Read more here.

Someone really placed an ad for a spatula

#neworleans

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg was appointed to the bench twenty-five years ago today, but she was a groundbreaking litigator for women’s rights long before then. Her greatest legacy may even be in the cases that she argued as an advocate before what was then an all-male Supreme Court—and won. Click the link in our bio to see images of the Justice growing up, from a young girl in Brooklyn to a law graduate who left Columbia as co-valedictorian (but with no job offers) to a young mother and the phenomenon we now know as R.B.G.

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A movie about Viola Davis because her life deserves to be known

“The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten, I have this expression on my face — it’s not a smile, it’s not a frown. I swear to you, that’s the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, ‘I cannot believe how God has blessed me.’ “

“I would jump in trash bins with maggots looking for food, and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry, I never had any kids come to my house because my house was a condemned building, it was boarded up, it was infested with rats. I was one of those kids who were poor and knew it.”

“I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me. We had nothing, I cannot believe my life, I just can’t, I’m so blessed. I would jump in trash bins with maggots looking for food, and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry, I never had any kids come to my house because my house was a condemned building, it was boarded up, it was infested with rats. I was one of those kids who were poor and knew it.”

“It became a motivation as opposed to something else — the thing about poverty is that it starts affecting your mind and your spirit because people don’t see you, I chose from a very young age that I didn’t want that for my life. And it very much has helped me appreciate and value the things that are in my life now because I never had it. A yard, a house, great plumbing, a full refrigerator, things that people take for granted, I don’t.”

“I first envisioned myself as an actor after I watched Cicely Tyson in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman when I was a child.”

“It wasn’t until then that I had a visual manifestation of the target I wanted to hit, It also gave me hope for the future and a different life for myself, she helped me have a very specific drive of how I was going to crawl, walk, run from that environment.”

“I became an artist, and thank God I did, because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life,”

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Nostalgia.

Sometimes it be ya own

Last night at trivia, I talked to my surrogate aunt about the Starbucks incident and how while people should be justly outraged, there's also the flipside.

As much as people want to be outraged (and rightfully so) at what happened in Starbucks in Philadelphia as well as what happened in Oakland with that white lady calling cops about a cookout, the one thing that escapes most black folks is that sometimes we as black folks do the same bullshit that we get on white folks about.

Here's some personal examples:

*January 2016 (During the time I worked at Lucky Dogs, I went into the Walgreens on Baronne after work. Dressed in a dingy LSU hoodie and sweatpants, the black security guard assumes I'm about to steal a cold drink out the store (I had enough money to buy a cold drink).

*March 2016 (After a long day at work, I decided to go to Deja Vu on Dauphine & Conti. I show my license to the doorman and after a few minutes the guy refuses to let me in.

Sidenote, I went to Deja Vu a few months ago and this white dude who was working the place allowed me to enter without any problems after I showed him my license.)

*April 2016 (The night of the Villanova-North Carolina game, one of my good friends (who is white) and I went to the Gumbo Pot on Decatur. Despite the fact that at the time I worked across the way from the place the manager there wanted me to leave while forgetting the fact that my friend and I came in together. Luckily my friend as well as one of the workers vouched for me.)

*March 2017 (Here in New Orleans, we have these things called hot sauce bars. On the same night that I started training for WWOZ, I walked into a hot sauce bar on Decatur & Dumaine to kill time. The lady then proceeds to ask if I'm wearing shoes. I then told her you wouldn't have said that shit to white folks, so why the fuck say it to another black person?)

*May 2017 (Walgreens on Royal & Iberville is a frequent place for bums in the Quarter. I was still working for the ice cream company at the time so I would always bring my portable Bluetooth speaker to work to play music. I walk into the Walgreens on Royal & Iberville to look for an item only to find out that the item wasnt in stock. As soon as I walk out, the black lady at the counter tells me to never come in the store.I empty my pockets and tell her that the thing she assumed I stole was a portable charger that I brought from home.)

*February 2018 (I do stand up comedy at Twelve Mile Limit in Mid City on Mondays. A person whose family owns a grocery store in the Seventh Ward sees me and blasts me on Twitter for not buying a drink but eating the free food.)

Before y'all mount up and boycott a white establishment for racism, I need y'all to be honest with yourselves black folks.

The same shit we go after white folks for we do to each other.

Joan of Arc parade Saturday

#mardigras

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The Beatles released “I Want to Hold Your Hand” 54 years ago today. See why it is one of the greatest Beatles songs.

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Foo Fighters appear on our new cover. In the story, Dave Grohl goes deep on his band’s star-studded new LP, ‘Concrete and Gold,’ missing Chris Cornell and much more. Read it in full right here.