Yes, we are fully aware that the complaints about trash collection across New Orleans are rising. Want to know what’s not rising — the wages of the trash collectors. We’re going to keep this “Somebody Has to Say It” brief. We are keeping it brief because we’ve said this more times than we can count...
SOMEBODY HAS TO SAY IT: She’s LaToya, You Called Her Name and She Said What She Said
The video of New Orleans Mayor Latoya Cantrell confronting a heckler while he sat at the bar of the Polo club lounge on Gravier Street is making the rounds. It seems that the Mayor was there, and this man spotted her and seized the opportunity to pretty much be an...
MISSING THE BALL: Now is the Time for REAL Equity in the Cultural Economy
If NOTCF is going to make a difference for the culture bearers at the heart of the city's $10 billion a year tourism industry, it cannot continue the same old practices under a new name. We were there when the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund announced it's grant program...
Somebody Has to Say It: Flint Water Crisis is Another Good Reason for Black Folk to Not Trust America or Many of its Institutions
And it’s another reason our government and the medical establishment ought to be ready to do the most to convince Black Americans to take the COVID-19 vaccine Rick Snyder, the former governor of Michigan, has been indicted for his role in the Flint water crisis, which resulted in the deadly poisoning of the...
Somebody Has to Say It: So We Will Call Out Louisiana’s Double-Tongued Lawmakers
Just so we are clear, you cannot condemn yesterday's criminal actions--the storming of the U.S. Capitol in one breath--and then vote against certifying the electoral college vote with the next. Scalise But these four Louisiana lawmakers tried it. Here is why the two don't mix: When Sen. Kennedy, and Reps....
Gayle Benson is Just Whistlin’ Dixie
Last week, Saints and Pelicans owner Gayle Benson announced that she would be changing the name of Dixie Brewing Company because the word “dixie” refers to any number of things that harken back to our nation’s racist history. That is true. Dixieland refers to the southern states of the US,...
Grab Your Purses and Leave: Time to Nix the Controversy over Nyx
We get it. African-Americans have every right to exist in every area of society. And we have the right to be respected and treated fairly in every sphere. But the controversy surrounding the comments made by Carnival's Mystic Krewe of Nxy Captain Julie Lea seems, to us at least, to be a...
Drew Brees Still Has a Good Arm . . . And He Can Use It to Pitch His Apology in the Trash
While our Congressman Cedric Richmond and other high placed African Americans are accepting Drew Brees' apology for his statement that categorized peaceful protest against racism and injustice as demonstrated by such acts as silently kneeling during the playing of the national anthem as somehow disrespecting the flag or the military,...
Scratch Us Off the List
Upset that officials in Charlotte refuse to guarantee that the GOP can run around their city without restrictions, the word on the street is New Orleans is on short list of cities being consider to host the 2020 Republican National Convention.What y'all think about that?Well, never ones to bite our...
Tourism Leader Stephen Perry Is Out of Touch and Out of Line
New Orleans & Company CEO Stephen Perry must be the most egotistical and out-of-touch non-profit leader in the city’s history. Here at The New Orleans Tribune, we feel pretty confident in making that assessment as messages Perry sent to members of Mayor LaToya Cantrell’s reveal the unreasonable and unrealistic position...