My New Orleans
03/01/2021
BATON ROUGE, La (press release) – Lieutenant Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana State Museum are proud to announce the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service’s (SITES) exhibition “
The Negro Motorist Green Book” will be on display at the
Capitol Park Museum in Baton Rouge from Aug. 21 – Nov. 14, 2021. Capitol Park Museum will be the only museum in Louisiana where you can view the exhibit.
“The Green Book” was first created in 1936 by Harlem postman Victor Green. The annual travel guide, published until 1967, provided African American travelers with information on restaurants, gas stations, department stores, and other businesses that welcomed Black travelers during the era of Jim Crow laws and “sundown towns” – communities that explicitly prohibited African Americans from staying overnight. “The Green Book” offered critical, life-saving information, and sanctuary.
Friends of the Cabildo host ‘Hidden Treasures: Carnival Edition’
Carnival fans can join the Friends of the Cabildo and the Louisiana State Museum for one-night-only as they open their Carnival Collection for an exclusive, behind-the-scenes viewing of historic costumes and other rarely seen artifacts. Wayne Phillips, Curator of Costumes and Textiles for the Louisiana State Museum, will guide you through an in-depth, first-hand look at Carnivals of years past through zoom. Guests that cannot attend the live showing will still be able to watch the recording after through a zoom recording.
Hidden Treasures of the Louisiana State Museum: Carnival Edition takes place via Zoom Wednesday, February 10 at 6 p.m. CST.
New Orleans Jazz Museum will be virtual field trip destination for classrooms across country Share Updated: 9:31 AM CST Jan 13, 2021 WDSU Digital Team
TRACKING THE COVID-19 VACCINE Share Updated: 9:31 AM CST Jan 13, 2021 WDSU Digital Team The New Orleans Jazz Museum will become a virtual field trip destination for classrooms across the country thanks to a state grant. Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser and the Louisiana State Museum announced Tuesday that the New Orleans Jazz Museum, through a grant from the National Park Foundation, is partnering with the New Orleans Jazz Historical Park to develop a series of virtual field trips that will be distributed to school children nationally. Part of the National Park Foundation’s Open Outdoors for Kids Hybrid Learning Grant Program, the $30,000 grant will be used to create a digital field trip component for the New Orleans Jazz Museum called New Orleans Cultural & Musical Connections: C
Meaningful Exploration & Discovery
A great university defines success by how it advances humanity through academic, scholarly and social leadership. By that standard, Tulane is truly impactful and ascendant. Tulane’s manifold contributions are evident in the lives we transform, the problems we solve and the community we foster.
IN FY20, TULANE RECEIVED MORE THAN $176 MILLION IN RESEARCH FUNDING THE HIGHEST AMOUNT IN TULANE’S HISTORY.
Health Equality
THOMAS LAVEIST, a national expert on issues related to equity and health, is dean of Tulane University’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine and the Weatherhead Presidential Chair in Health Equity. He and other key researchers are currently working to launch a new Health Equity Institute, to study how health issues disproportionately impact the Black community. LaVeist is also co-chair of the Louisiana COVID-19 Health Equity Task Force, which was tasked by Gov. John Bel Edwards to develop a series of recomme