Athina Morris

5 days ago | wwno.org | Athina Morris

Whether it’s helping an aging parent, supporting a partner through illness or raising a child with special needs, millions of Americans are providing unpaid care to a loved one. And if they were compensated, it would cost around $600 billion a year. Caregiving, a new PBS documentary premiering Tuesday, June 24, explores America’s caregiving crisis and the emotional and financial toll it takes on caregivers as the need for care grows and resources lag behind.

2 weeks ago | wwno.org | Athina Morris

Want to honor and celebrate Juneteenth in New Orleans? You can enjoy live music, celebrate with friends and learn about Black heritage at a number of events happening around the city this month. Juneteenth honors the day–June 19, 1865–when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were told they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared those enslaved in the Confederacy had been emancipated. Juneteenth is a federal holiday, and Louisiana Gov.

2 weeks ago | wrkf.org | Athina Morris

Want to honor and celebrate Juneteenth in Baton Rouge? You can enjoy live music, celebrate with family and learn about Black heritage at a number of events happening around the city this month. Juneteenth honors the day–June 19, 1865–when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas were told they were free, more than two years after the Emancipation Proclamation declared those enslaved in the Confederacy had been emancipated. Juneteenth is a federal holiday, and Louisiana Gov.

2 weeks ago | wwno.org | Alana Schreiber |Athina Morris

Last weekend, Dillard University held a memorial service and jazz funeral to honor 19 Black New Orleanians whose skulls were wrongfully taken from Charity Hospital and sent to Germany in the 1880s. The ceremony shed light on the legacy of racist pseudoscience. Dr. Henry Schmidt, a New Orleans physician, is believed to have given the skulls to a German researcher studying phrenology, a discredited pseudoscience that falsely claimed skull shape could determine racial characteristics.

3 weeks ago | wwno.org | Athina Morris

Rainbow-colored crowds will fill the streets of New Orleans next week to celebrate the city’s LGBTQ+ community with parades, festivals and other big events. The NOLA Pride Parade is set to roll through the French Quarter on Saturday, June 14. PrideFest will return for its 10th year, and be held in the evening to help people beat the heat. RuPaul’s Drag Race star Kerri Colby will headline the event.