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FILE - In this July 20, 2006, file photo, Lucille Bridges poses next to the original 1964 Norman Rockwell painting, The Problem We All Live With, showing her daughter Ruby, inside the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. Bridges, a Hurricane Katrina evacuee and Houston resident after the storm, looked for the first time at the Rockwell original capturing her oldest daughter, Ruby, as she was escorted by U.S. marshals into an all-white New Orleans school during integration nearly a half-century earlier. New Orleans mayor announced Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2020, that Lucille Bridges, the mother of civil rights activist Ruby Bridges, had died at the age of 86. (Steve Ueckert/Houston Chronicle via AP, File)
Pandemic, hurricanes top Louisiana news for 2020
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Hurricane Sally impacts Louisiana s Dauphin Island in September of 2020.
NEW ORLEANS (AP) Louisiana, like the rest of the country, was hit hard in 2020 by the COVID-19 pandemic. It also was pummeled by hurricane after hurricane and faced a variety of accusations of racial injustice.
The year’s top stories:
COVID-19
The new coronavirus infected more than one in 20 Louisiana residents, killing 6,400-plus - more than one of every 1,000 people in the state. The COVID-19 pandemic disrupted the economy, including oil, tourism and seafood. Outbreaks sickened people at crawfish farms and in prisons and nursing homes; schools closed. Those flouting emergency public health orders included a minister and his congregation. Deaths from the disease or its complications included those of jazz great Ellis Marsalis and the 2007 Zulu king.Christmas Eve bonfires were canceled. So were New Orleans’ 2021 Carnival and Mardi Gras parades.
We have heard about “racist” statues. The charge of “racist,” used to any degree real or perceived, has become a powerful weapon among those pushing swift and widespread cultural and political revolution.
The next big thing in their crusade will be “racist” highways that must be destroyed like statues of Abraham Lincoln and Robert E. Lee. Racial justice activists hope Pete Buttigieg, President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee for transportation secretary, will lead the charge. His tweet about highways emboldens them.
“Black and brown neighborhoods have been disproportionately divided by highway projects or left isolated by the lack of adequate transit and transportation resources. In the Biden-Harris administration, we will make righting these wrongs an imperative,” Buttigieg tweeted on Dec. 20.
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