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Belton's new show "Cookin' Louisiana" airs on 93% of the PBS stations in the country.

Louisiana Illuminator ‘This is hallowed ground’  Sybil Morial admires the first marker for the Louisiana Civil Rights Trail unveiled May 3 at Dooky Chase's Restaurant in New Orleans. The trail is a project of the Louisiana Office of Tourism led by Louisiana Lt. Governor Billy Nungesser (pink tie). The markers, shaped like a person carrying a protest sign, were designed by artist Ernest M. English (white jacket). (Screenshot of video from Louisiana Office of Tourism) NEW ORLEANS — Last month, as her audience lunched on fried chicken and mustard greens, Sybil Morial summa...

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Published May 24, 2021 at 9:12 AM CDT Listen • 2:19 / Historic restaurants will always have a certain allure for tourists, but within the city, these old places can be landmarks of a very New Orleans type - repositories of personal traditions, shared memories and long relationships entwined with our food and our way of life here. They may be sprawling monuments of Old World elegance or ramshackle joints. New Orleans needs them all. The pandemic brought questions of how places prized for continuity and history could change to get through this chapter of world his...

Follow CNN Louisiana unveils civil rights markers honoring the courage of activists and the places they organized and boycotted for change Updated 1:34 PM ET, Sat May 8, 2021 The 6-foot tall steel silhouette that marks the first bus boycott in the nation stands outside the Old State Capitol building in Baton Rouge. (CNN)"Courage over oppression" is the message the Louisiana Office of Tourism is pressing into with the installation of historical markers memorializing significant locations that were crucial to the Civil Rights Movement around the state. Similar to the US project of the sam...