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1 week ago | 
wgno.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Lynn’s Interiors sells all types of furniture across its many locations in the Houma and Thibodaux area. Everything from sofas, sectionals, beds, tables, chairs, kitchen finishings and the like. However, a house is not a home without love and the people who inhabit it. Years ago, the Naquin family faced the unthinkable. On a 2012 afternoon, a few days before Christmas, their home was destroyed in a violent blaze.
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2 weeks ago | 
wgno.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In the wake of federal budget cuts, several nonprofits across the country are feeling their funding drastically diminish, after the Trump administration drastically scaled back government spending. The organizations that are affected the most are those who receive money through grants. Locally, the Amistad Research Center is affected and trying to find other ways to keep moving forward. They are now looking for assistance through donations from the public.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — In the wake of federal budget cuts, several nonprofits across the country are feeling their funding drastically diminish, after the Trump administration drastically scaled back government spending. The organizations that are affected the most are those who receive money through grants. Locally, the Amistad Research Center is affected and trying to find other ways to keep moving forward. They are now looking for assistance through donations from the public.
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1 month ago | 
yahoo.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — April 12 marks National Record Store Day and an Uptown New Orleans staple is ready to celebrate. Peaches Records on Magazine Street will also mark its 50th year anniversary as well as musician Da Project Barbie’s aka “Peachez” record release and birthday party.
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1 month ago | 
wgno.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — April 12 marks National Record Store Day and an Uptown New Orleans staple is ready to celebrate. Peaches Records on Magazine Street will also mark its 50th year anniversary as well as musician Da Project Barbie’s aka “Peachez” record release and birthday party.
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1 month ago | 
wgno.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The breathtaking new exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art showcases masquerading cultures of West Africa. New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations is on view at NOMA until Aug. 10. Through intricate details, adornment, wood, feathers, paints and fabrics, “masking tells the story of four different artists from four different distinct countries in West Africa. There are hundreds of masking traditions.
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2 months ago | 
wgno.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Anne Collins Smith is the Chief Curator at the New Orleans Museum of Art. Her new appointment is powerful. The job of a curator is to make choices and be the keeper of a collection of art and artifacts. To have a Black woman over all of the art at a museum sends a profound message that although Black artists weren’t always recognized at museum institutions in the past, a Black curator can make sure everyone is part of museum collections going forward.
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2 months ago | 
wgno.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — WGNO is privileged to celebrate Black history and culture with our 2025 Edition of, “Honoring Black History: Sharing Our Stories.” This year, we dedicate our show to Black women. We broadcast our show from the brilliant and acclaimed Stella Jones Gallery. The Stella Jones Gallery is located on the first floor of 201 St. Charles Ave. The mission of Stella Jones is to make African American, contemporary African and Caribbean fine art accessible to all.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Christopher Leach
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — WGNO is privileged to celebrate Black history and culture with our 2025 Edition of, “Honoring Black History: Sharing Our Stories.” This year, we dedicate our show to Black women. We broadcast our show from the brilliant and acclaimed Stella Jones Gallery. The Stella Jones Gallery is located on the first floor of 201 St. Charles Ave. The mission of Stella Jones is to make African American, contemporary African and Caribbean fine art accessible to all.
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2 months ago | 
yahoo.com | Christopher Leach
The story of four little girls during the Civil Rights Movement in New OrleansNEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — New Orleans has quite a rich history and was indispensable as it concerns the entire country’s civil rights movement. Plessy Vs. Ferguson was held in 1896, and was about an African American Homer Plessy who boarded a train in New Orleans.
