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Laura Blasts Louisiana Coast With Wind And Wall Of Seawater

Posted on August 27, 2020 · Laura has weakened to a tropical storm after blasting the Louisiana coast with high winds and heavy rain for hours.

Dana Farley, of New Orleans, participates in a candlelight vigil at the statue of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans, Monday, April 24, 2017. New Orleans will begin taking down Confederate statutes, becoming the latest Southern body to divorce itself from what some say are symbols of racism and intolerance. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)

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New Orleans Takes Down White Supremacist Monument

Posted on April 24, 2017 · A monument to a deadly white-supremacist uprising in 1874 was removed under cover of darkness by workers in masks and bulletproof vests Monday as New Orleans joined the movement to take down symbols of the Confederacy and the Jim Crow South.