614. Part 2 of out chat with Ana Croegaert about the removal

of Confederate monuments. We also talked to her about her

participation in second line parades around the city. “In 2017,

the City of New Orleans removed four segregation-era monuments

celebrating the Southern Confederacy and valorizing white

supremacist ideology. As in other cities, efforts to remove such

monuments are not new, and historically have been connected to

collective challenges to racialized inequality, and more

recently to transnational postcolonial struggles. Given the

longstanding activism in favor of removing such monuments I ask,

Why now? In exploring this question, I examine the circulation

of images, talk, and text about the monuments in relation to the

city’s post-2005 political economy and find that people’s

expressed sentiments regarding the statues illuminate the

ongoing challenges faced by New Orleans’ multiracial

working-class and poor residents. I argue that the city

administration’s framing of the monuments as emblems of an

unequal past decouples the monuments’ removal from the urgent

need to meaningfully address present inequalities.” 

 “I am a Chicago-based anthropologist working with

ethnography, performance, and artmaking to expand awareness of

people’s creative efforts to deal with the aftermath of harm and

to craft hopeful futures. From coffee cultures to public

memorials, my work spans kitchen cupboards, urban gardens, and

city streets to record how people make meaning in their daily

lives.”

The oldest play about Louisiana, author James Workman wrote it

as a celebration of the Louisiana Purchase. Now it is back in

print for the first time in 220 years. Order your copy today!

Wells elected governor of Union Occupied Louisiana.

K-Doe, "Emperor of the Universe," born on February 22, 1936 at

Charity Hospital. “I’m not positive, but I think all music

came from New Orleans.”

Alexandria Krewes Parade

2:00 pm. Sunday,

March 2, 2025

Route: Texas Avenue – Masonic – Memorial – North Boulevard –

Alexandria Mall

Alexandria, LA 71301

    Each Mardi Gras Parade Krewe has a unique

history and theme. Some have been around for decades, while

others have been in existence for just a few years.

The goal of the AMGA (Alexandria Mardi Gras Association) is to

provide a cultural event, appealing to all cross sections of

the community, state and region, to help stimulate the

economy.

    The Mardi Gras du Couer de la Louisianne

(Mardi Gras in the Heart of Louisiana) spirit has really taken

hold of Central Louisiana since the first parade was held on

Sunday, February 13, 1994. Alexandria’s Mardi Gras has grown

from having a total of ten floats with participation of four

Mardi Gras Krewes that first year, to presently having

twenty-three floats and Krewes. The Krewe Parade attendance is

estimated at 150,000 and the Children’s Parade attendance is

estimated at 45,000.

    For additional information, please contact

us here.

Pellera Trio play at Snug Harbor on Frenchmen St. in New

Orleans.

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