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Kane Brown performs during CMA Fest 2022 on Friday, June 10, 2022, at Nissan Stadium in Nashville, Tenn. Brown is among the headliners at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which takes place over two weekends beginning April 28. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

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Lizzo, Ed Sheeran among acts set for 2023 Jazz Fest
By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press
Fri,01/13/23-11:30AM , 173 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Lizzo and Ed Sheeran are among the headliners at this year's New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, which takes place over two weekends beginning April 28.
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Fans parade down Poland Avenue toward the former home of music legend Antoine 'Fats' Domino during a second line parade honoring him on Nov. 1, 2017, in New Orleans. The New Orleans street where Domino, one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll spent most of his life, is being renamed in his honor. (Photo by Amy Harris/Invision/AP, File)

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Renowned pianist Fats Domino has street renamed in his honor
By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press
Thu,10/13/22-5:08PM , 103 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The New Orleans street where one of the founders of rock ‘n’ roll spent most of his life is being renamed in his honor.
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Popeyes founder Al Copeland holds a piece of his fried chicken outside one of his 34 fast food outlets in New Orleans on June 20, 1979. A new book, “Secrets of a Tastemaker: Al Copeland, The Cookbook," released last month, helped mark the 50th anniversary of Popeyes Famous Fried Chicken. (AP Photo, File)

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Cookbook looks back at dynamic Popeyes founder and his food
By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press
Fri,10/07/22-11:13AM , 365 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Louisiana is known for delivering food with big, bold flavor. The same can be said for the founder of the Popeyes fried chicken empire, who put spicy chicken, red beans and dirty rice on the national map and whose story is outlined in a new book, “Secrets of a Tastemaker: Al Copeland, The Cookbook.”
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Former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu waves with his wife Verna before his son, incumbent New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu, arrives to address supporters after winning reelection in New Orleans, Saturday, Feb. 1, 2014. Moon Landrieu, the patriarch of a Louisiana political family who was a lonely voice for civil rights until the tide turned in the 1960s, has died at age 92. A family friend said Landrieu died Monday, Sept. 5, 2022. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert, File)

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Family, friends say farewell to former New Orleans mayor
By CHEVEL JOHNSON - Associated Press
Sat,09/10/22-6:40AM , 235 Reads
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Heartfelt stories of a man's courage, generosity, faith and love for his family were heard Saturday as family and friends bid farewell to former New Orleans Mayor Moon Landrieu, whose legacy includes standing against segregation at a time when some preferred the status quo.

Landrieu died Monday at the age of 92.
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