Matt Haines
Freelance Writer at Freelance
Live in NOLA, freelance writer, hiked 2200-mile Appalachian Trail, ate 88 king cakes in one Mardi Gras. Author of The Big Book of King Cake.
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1 month ago |
culinarybackstreets.com | Matt Haines
Kirk and Kerry, brother and sister, are the heart and soul of Frady’s One Stop Food Store, a Bywater neighborhood institution that has been around in some shape or form since 1889. After a typically busy lunch rush, the duo sit at a table outside the yellow-painted shop, watching over their quiet corner of New Orleans. They shout hello to an older neighbor as he totters by. Kerry notices his limp and asks Kirk about it.
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1 month ago |
voanews.com | Matt Haines
Each year, nearly 54,000 women in the U.S. state of Louisiana are released from prison, according to Operation Restoration, a New Orleans-based nonprofit organization with a mission to support women and girls impacted by incarceration as they attempt to restore their lives. For many women, restoring their lives proves too difficult. Some 30% return to jail within five years.
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1 month ago |
culinarybackstreets.com | Matt Haines
New Orleans’s king cake is a culinary symbol of Mardi Gras and the festive, months-long lead-up known as Carnival season. Beginning on January 6 and continuing until the season’s culmination on Fat Tuesday – this year taking place on March 4 – revelers across the region enjoy slice after slice of this traditional, cinnamon-flavored cake. Whoever finds the small, plastic baby figurine hidden inside is said to receive good luck, but must also purchase the next king cake.
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Nov 20, 2024 |
voaindonesia.com | Matt Haines
This image contains sensitive content which some people may find offensive or disturbing. ImagesMultimediaEmbedded ContentCommentsLink has been copied to clipboard Teruskan18 Negara Bagian Amerika Larang atau Batasi Pelajaran "Critical Race Theory"Teori Ras Kritik dikembangkan untuk membantu memahami mengapa ketidaksetaraan masih tetap ada, meskipun Amerika telah mengesahkan undang-undang untuk menciptakan kesetaraan.
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Nov 19, 2024 |
voanews.com | Matt Haines
The teaching of America’s racial history is dividing voters as state governments and federal judges weigh in on what is known as critical race theory. “What we are seeing is that America is having a very public argument about how to discuss race in our country,” explained Stanford law professor Ralph Richard Banks. “It is a conversation about how we talk about the racist incidents in our past but also about how the past continues to shape inequalities in the present.
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RT @thanh412: Who has the best King Cake? That's a debate that never seems to end in #NOLA. People are making runs on King Cake during a sh…
Looking forward to tomorrow! 10am at Children's Author Tent #2 to read The Little Book of King Cake and do some Halloween-themed king cake decorating!
Attention, little bookworms! Here's who's coming to see you at the 2023 Louisiana Book Festival. https://t.co/x2znvp1OPS
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