Published: Jan. 27, 2023, 7:37 a.m.
506. Part 2 of our
interview with Tim Wise. Tim is a civil rights activist who worked in Louisiana. "Tim Wise, whom scholar and philosopher Cornel West calls, 'A vanilla brother in the tradition of (abolitionist) John Brown,' is among the nation’s most prominent antiracist essayists and educators...
After graduating from college, he threw himself into social justice efforts full-time, as a Youth Coordinator and Associate Director of the Louisiana Coalition Against Racism and Nazism: the largest of the many groups organized in the early 1990s to defeat the political candidacies of white supremacist and former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. From there, he became a community organizer in New Orleans' public housing, and a policy analyst for a children's advocacy group focused on combating poverty and economic inequity."
- This week in Louisiana history. January 27 1730 Jean Paul
LeSueur leads 500 Choctaw Indians against the Natchez Indians.
- This week in New Orleans history. Lindell Holmes
defeated Frank Tate for the Super middleweight
International Boxing Federation title in New Orleans on
January 27, 1990.
- This week in Louisiana.
2023 Night of Lights
Pineville Mardi Gras Parade
Join us Friday Feb 10, 2023 at 7pm for the 2023 Night of
Lights Pineville Mardi Gras Parade. Join several thousand of
your closest friends and watch the Floats go by! The Parade
rolls from the front entrance of LCU down Main Street to
Alexandria.
(Friday) 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Main Street
Pineville
Admission. Free.
Phone (318) 449-5650
Website
- Postcards from Louisiana. Tickler's Piano Bar, Bourbon St.