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...
Fighting to Re-Open Louisiana too Soon is Callous and Beyond Stupid
This is going to be a brief one, guys. There's just not much we can say because two things are clear. You can't fix stupid. And you can't fix callous, either. We must go record with the fact that we fully support Gov. John Bel Edwards' extension of the state's...
Congratulations, Ray Nagin!
We were happy to learn that Ray Nagin, former mayor of Orleans, had been released from federal prison and is now reunited with his family in Texas. The New Orleans Tribune wrote about the federal investigation and prosecution of Nagin during the trial. And we had our opinions. We were never...
WHILE WE ARE QUARANTINING . . .
THE EXHIBITION HALL AUTHORITY WAS CHOOSING FINALISTS FOR ITS $557 MILLION HOTEL PROJECT The Ernest N. Morial Convention Center Exhibition Hall Authority, the governing body of the New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, announced on Monday (April 21) that he had received proposals from master development teams to develop 39-acres...
No Time for the Blame Game
There is probably no individual or organization that encourages personal responsibility and the need for those of us in the Black community to save ourselves more than we do here at The New Orleans Tribune. Our mantra: "We must save ourselves because no one else will." Of course, Black Americans...
400 Years is Not A Trend: COVID-19 Exposes The Impact of Institutional Racism in America
When Gov. John Bel Edwards announced during his daily COVID-19 press conference on Monday that a disturbing trend had emerged, his statement on the subject was so brief that we weren’t sure everyone had heard it. By now, you know what he shared: African Americans, who comprise only 32 percent...