“Louisiana Christmas Day,” written by Jim Cox, performed by Aaron Neville.
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Mike Frugé of Cajun Crawfish in Louisiana sells 3 million of the tasty crustacean critters every year. He grows a million pounds in his rice fields. An Eater video directed by Connor Reid and hosted by Daniel Geneen.
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New York Times reporters explore the painstaking search for the graves of enslaved people along the Mississipppi River in Louisiana.
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“Sugar Coated Love,” credited to record producer J.D. Miller, recorded by Lazy Lester (Leslie Carswell Johnson) in 1958.
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Musician Stanley Dural Jr., better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, died September 24th in Lafayette, Louisiana at the age of 68. Mr. Dural, who grew up in southwestern Louisiana, didn’t initially like the accordion-and-fiddle French Creole music of his father’s generation, and played piano and organ in R&B bands. Then in 1977 he sat in with the band of his father’s friend Clifton Chenier, and he was hooked.
Buckwheat Zydeco website
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“Buckwheat Zydeco leader Stanley Dural, Jr. dead at 68,” Chelsea Brasted, New Orleans Times-Picayune
“Stanley Dural Jr., who popularized zydeco music as Buckwheat Zydeco, dies at 68,” Matt Schudel, Washington Post
“Stanley Dural Jr., Founder of Buckwheat Zydeco, Dies at 68,” Jon Pareles, New York Times
Video: “Allons a Boucherie,” about a pig-stickin.’ Lyrics here.
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“Louisiana 1927” written by Randy Newman and recorded by him in 1974. The song was later recorded by Aaron Neville after Hurricane Katrina.
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The Whitney Plantation near Wallace, Louisiana, was founded by German émigré Ambroise Heidel and his family in 1722, and his son Jean Jacques Haydel Sr. converted it to sugar cultivation in the early 1800s. The property passed through several hands before it was purchased by New Orleans attorney John Cummings, who spent 16 years and $8 million of his own money transforming it into a museum dedicated to telling the story of slavery in America.
“The Whitney Plantation is not a place designed to make people feel guilt, or to make people feel shame. It is a site of memory, a place that exists to further the necessary dialogue about race in America.”
— “Telling the Story of Slavery,” Kalim Armstrong, The New Yorker
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Did you know that lame-duck Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal was running for president? Probably not; few people did. But don’t worry – he just dropped out of the race. Man, those Duck Dynasty folks are mighty disappointed.
Gov. Jindal’s campaign spent more money than it raised last quarter, but that’s kind of a habit for him. He’s leaving office with the state budget $500 million in the hole. Maybe the budget just needs an exorcism. Anyway, that’s the next governor’s problem.
When his term is over, Mr. Jindal will hang out at America Next, the nonprofit advocacy group (not a “think tank”) he set up to launder money for his campaign, not that there was much of it.
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“Bobby Jindal drops out of White House race,” Alex Isenstadt, Politico
“Why Bobby Jindal’s Candidacy Failed,” Harry Enten, FiveThirtyEight
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On Friday Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R) said that it is too soon after the mass shooting in a Lafayette movie theater to discuss gun control reform. By that logic it will never be a good time to talk about gun safety laws in Louisiana, since the rate of gun deaths in the Pelican State is the highest in the country. Discussion of rational policies to reduce firearms violence will always be preempted as citizens mourn Louisiana’s newest gunshot victims.
Come to think of it, that kind of neglect is perfectly consistent with the rest of Governor Jindal’s public health policy.
“Louisiana Christmas Day,” written by Jim Cox, performed by Aaron Neville.
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