“You Feel Powerful”: Marching Through Carnival
High school bands practice for months before parading through the streets of New Orleans during Carnival.
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Dynamic Black Marching Bands Are Super Bowl Stalwarts
Long before Michael Jackson, the Rolling Stones and Rihanna, there was Freddie Colston. Colston was just a 20-year-old student from tiny Fairbanks, La., when he traveled to Los Angeles in January 1967. He had grown up in a home without indoor plumbing, but now he was staying in lavish accommodations with about 180 other members…
With Spotlight on New Orleans, Louisiana Moves Homeless Out of Sight
In the frigid early morning darkness on Wednesday, Louisiana State Police officers went tent to tent in an encampment that had sprouted beneath an overpass in the heart of New Orleans. The residents needed to pack, the officers told them. Buses were waiting to carry them to temporary accommodations. Ronald Lewis listened to the officers’…
Opinion | Don’t Underestimate the Enduring Power of ISIS
For 20 years, I’ve been studying Western recruits to domestic and transnational terrorist organizations. I’ve interviewed jihadis, white-nationalist terrorists and eco-terrorists to understand their motivations and to prevent future violence. In my view, the appeal of some of the most crucial elements that ISIS offered to vulnerable or confused Western recruits — doctrinal certainty, identity,…
Driver in Ramming Attack Made Trips to New Orleans and Abroad
The driver in the deadly Jan. 1 ramming attack in New Orleans visited the city twice in the months before he armed himself with guns and explosives and plowed a rented truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street, investigators said on Sunday. In one visit in October, he cruised through the city’s French Quarter wearing…
New Orleans Releases Most Names of Victims Killed in Attack
Things had been looking up for Elliot Wilkinson, a 40-year-old man who was among the 14 people killed in New Orleans this week in what federal authorities were investigating as a terrorist attack. Mr. Wilkinson had been released from prison and was homeless, but he had started searching for an apartment, according to a local…
Soldier Who Blew Up Cybertruck in Las Vegas Wrote U.S. Is Headed for ‘Collapse,’ Police Say
The Green Beret who blew up a Tesla Cybertruck outside the Trump International Hotel this week in Las Vegas and took his own life had written that he wanted to send a “wake-up call” to the country, the authorities said on Friday. In notes recovered by investigators from one of his phones and made public…