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Actor Harold X. Evans brought Black theater to life in N.O.

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Anyone who saw an August Wilson play at the Anthony Bean Community Theater and Acting School, or ABCT, in New Orleans had the pleasure of witnessing a performance by Harold X. Evans. Whether it was “Joe Turner’s Come & Gone” or “Two Trains Running,” Evans demonstrated why he was called the “Dean of Black Theater.”The actor and stage director died Monday (June 16). He was 79.
Freedom Rider Julia Humbles challenged the rules of segregation - Verite News New Orleans

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

A Trailways bus pulled into a station in Jackson, Mississippi, on May 24, 1961. A WSB-TV news clip shows officers escorting two Black women to the back of a police van. They were being arrested for riding the bus. One of the women was New Orleans native Julia Aaron Humbles. Humbles “was among a group of young people from New Orleans that staged sit-ins, challenged laws on buses traveling across the south, and even spent time behind bars in several states for their actions,” WGNO-TV states.
In new book ‘Matriarch,’ Tina Knowles traces roots to Louisiana

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Even if you’re not a member of the Beyhive and just a casual listener of the music of Beyoncé or any of her incarnations from Cowboy Carter all the way back to Destiny’s Child, you are no doubt a fan of her mother. Tina Knowles has been in the background—mostly—for all of the public years of her famous daughters (besides Queen B, Solange, and bonus daughter Kelly Rowland).
Entergy to finalize gas business handoff in next several weeks

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius

New Orleanians will have a new natural gas company in the next several weeks, after a recently formed company, Delta Utilities, officially takes control of Entergy New Orleans’ gas business. On Monday (June 16), representatives from the company told the New Orleans City Council that the transition should be seamless for customers – whose accounts will automatically transfer to the new company on July 1.
Dave Bartholomew was ‘one of rock ’n’ roll’s greatest producers’

1 week ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

When it comes to collaborations, the one between Fats Domino and David Louis Bartholomew was epic. For 10 years, they produced 40 singles that hit the Top 40 R&B charts, with seven at No 1. Bartholomew wrote or co-wrote “a string of hits, including ‘Ain’t That A Shame’ and ‘I’m Walking,’” Black Past states. “He was one of the most influential promoters of 20th Century New Orleans-style music, particularly during the 1950s and 1960s.” Born on Dec.
Civil rights investigative journalist Stanley Nelson, ‘the best of us,’ died last week

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

By Jerry Mitchell, Mississippi TodayAmerica lost a gentle giant in journalism when Stanley Nelson, who investigated some of the nation’s most notorious racially motivated slayings in Mississippi and Louisiana, died unexpectedly last week. He was 69. CBC reporter David Ridgen, an award-winning documentary filmmaker and podcast host, worked with the reporter for years.“Stanley Nelson is the best of us,” he said. “A doer. Not a reminiscer. A teller. Not someone to leave anyone behind.
US shrimp fishers see Trump tariffs as a lifeline: ‘We’re basically on our knees’

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius

This article was originally published by The Guardian. Sandy Nguyen has strong opinions about where the best shrimp in the US is produced. A second-generation shrimper in New Orleans, Nguyen maintains “our [Louisiana] shrimp tastesbetter than Florida shrimp or Mississippi shrimp or Texas shrimp”. Her family moved to the Gulf Coast from Vietnam during theJimmyCarter administration,and her dad, like many such immigrants to the area, worked as a fisher.
Cuts to federal jobs could disproportionately impact Black workers

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Katie Jane Fernelius

For Harold John, a job with the federal government meant a more stable, comfortable life than the one he knew as a child. John grew up in the Melpomene Projects with his three sisters. Neither of his parents, both of who had grown up on rural farms in Louisiana, had obtained more than an elementary school education. John was able to finish high school, join the U.S. Navy and then get a job with the U.S. Postal Service, all of which helped carry him into the middle class in the 1980s.
Toni Stone was the first woman to play in the Negro Leagues

2 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

“Why don’t you go home and fix your husband some biscuits?”Toni Stone heard it all as the first woman to play baseball in the male Negro Leagues. She played for the New Orleans Creoles, the San Francisco Sea Lions and the Kansas City Monarchs in the early 1950s.
Are redevelopers including the voices of Lincoln Beach’s most frequent visitors?

3 weeks ago | veritenews.org | Michelle Liu

Many locals know that Lincoln Beach was New Orleans’ historic Black beach. What fewer know is that for the past 20 years, the primary users have been from the city’s Latin American communities, and these longtime users have had little voice in the city’s plans to redevelop the space. Officials speak frequently about the amusement park on Lake Pontchartrain that, from 1954-64, was a segregated area where Black New Orleanians could swim and play.