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The Times-Picayune’s Historical Use of the N-Word

September 8, 2023August 25, 2023 Bala Baptiste Jim Crow, MEDIA, Newspapers, white supremacy

The News Orleans daily newspaper the Times-Picayune, since its founding on January 25, 1837, and throughout 1914, when it merged

The White Press & Jim Crow

February 23, 2023February 22, 2023 Justin Laing Jim Crow, journalism, New South, Newspapers, segregation

Within a frame of a two competing ideas of the United States “one liberal, the other illiberal,” Journalism and Jim Crow

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez and the African American Community of New Orleans during the Civil War

October 19, 2022October 13, 2022 Anthony J. Cade II abolition, Civil War, Louis Charles Roundanez, Newspapers, slavery

Dr. Louis Charles Roudanez lived an extraordinary life. He traveled the world, earned two medical degrees, started two newspapers, and was an activist during

What Civil Rights Acts: The Times-Picayune’s Editorial Silence on Civil Rights

December 2, 2021December 1, 2021 Bala Baptiste desegregation, Editorial, integration, Louisiana, New Orleans, Newspapers

The New Orleans morning daily newspaper, The Times-Picayune, during the 11-year period between 1957 and 1968, failed to publish a

A Jubilee: Can HBCU Publications Revamp Education?

October 6, 2021October 5, 2021 Rochelle Spencer and DeLisa Harris Activism, black intellectual history, education, HBCU, Newspapers

Thank you to the the library team at Fisk University, especially Dr. Brandon Owens and Dr. Magana Kabugi; their