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Marie Delphine Macarty or MacCarthy (March 19, 1787 – December 7, 1849), more commonly known as Madame Blanque or, after her third marriage, as Madame LaLaurie, was a New Orleans socialite and serial killer who was believed to have tortured and murdered enslaved people in her household. Born during the Spanish colonial period, LaLaurie ...
Bélizaire and the Frey Children. Artist. Jacques Amans. Year. 1837. Bélizaire and the Frey Children is an 1837 group portrait painting attributed to the artist Jacques Amans that is a rare example of an enslaved person who is painted in a naturalistic manner. [1][2] It is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [1]
Ruby Nell Bridges Hall (born September 8, 1954) is an American civil rights activist. She was the first African American child to attend formerly whites -only William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana during the New Orleans school desegregation crisis on November 14, 1960. [1][2][3] She is the subject of a 1964 painting, The Problem We All ...
LaToya Cantrell (née Wilder; born April 3, 1972) [1] is a politician serving as the Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana since May 7, 2018. A Democrat, Cantrell is the first woman to hold the office. Before becoming mayor, Cantrell represented District B on the New Orleans City Council from 2012 to 2018. [2][3]
Alamy Any family vacation to New Orleans with kids must include a visit to its famous and iconic French Quarter. And, while you may not think this historic neighborhood of restaurants, honky-tonks ...
Carmen's Cottage (with Mary Davies) WCCO-TV 1966–77. Clancy and Company / Clancy and Willie (with John Gallos, Allan Lotsberg) WCCO-TV 1963–77. Clancy the (Keystone) Cop (with John Gallos) WCCO-TV 1959–61. Clancy the Space Cop (with John Gallos) WCCO-TV 1961. Commodore Cappy (with John Gallos) WCCO-TV 1957–59.
Besh was born in Meridian, Mississippi, and raised in Slidell. [1] [2] He has been married to Jenifer Berrigan Besh since 1991; together they have four children.[3] [4] The family are practicing Catholics and parishioners of the St. Luke the Evangelist Church in Slidell, Louisiana. [4]
St. Mary's Academy. St. Mary's Academy is a private Catholic K-12 school in New Orleans, Louisiana run by the Sisters of the Holy Family. [3] Founded in 1867, it is one of the oldest Black Catholic schools in the country. It admits girls and boys until grade 7, and admits only girls for grades 8-12. The academy has a long tradition as a private ...