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Deep South Portfolio: New Orleans

  • The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019.
  • Trumpeter James Andrews leads a second line for Malcolm {quote}Dr. John{quote} Rebennack, who died Thursday at age 77, as it pauses in front of a mural of Allen Toussaint on Claiborne Ave. in the Treme in New Orleans, La. Friday, June 7, 2019.
  • The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019.
  • The Big 6 Brass Band leads a second line past Dooky Chase restaurant to celebrate the life and legacy of the legendary New Orleans chef Leah Chase in New Orleans, La. Monday, June 3, 2019.
  • Deacon John Moore touches his friend for the last time during the viewing of Dave Bartholomew at St. Gabriel the Archangel Church in New Orleans, La. Monday, July 8, 2019. The life of David Bartholomew, a trumpeter, bandleader, producer, arranger, composer and star-maker of Fats Domino, Lloyd Price and many other New Orleans talents, was celebrated with prayers, tributes, brass bands and dancing. He died at 100 years of age on June 23.
  • A flambeaux leads The Knights of Babylon as they roll on the Uptown parade route with 12 Lieutenants on horseback, and 26 floats with 305 knights on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018.
  • A member of the North Side Skull and Bones Gang emerges from a home after waking up its residents in Treme on Mardi Gras morning in New Orleans, La. Tuesday, March 5, 2019. The gang is celebrating its 200th year.
  • Spyboy Samual Fields of the Uptown Warriors holds a SKS, a semi-automatic carbine, with an extended bayonet as he looks for other Indians to challenge with tribal dances and chants in Central City on Mardi Gras day in New Orleans, La., Tuesday, Feb. 13, 2018. Mardi Gras Indian tribes who wear hand-made one of a kind costumes meet other tribes and perform ritual dances and chants all over the city on Mardi Gras Day.
  • The Knights of Chaos roll on the Uptown route with a 16-float parade of 225 men throwing cards, cups and doubloons to parade-goers in New Orleans, La., on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018.
  • Drew Edwards, age 3, looks for beads as The Knights of Babylon roll on the Uptown parade route with 12 Lieutenants on horseback, and 26 floats with 305 knights on Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018.
  • NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Marquell Williams, age 12, in pink at left, and other neighborhood kids who spend their time at the Running Bear Boxing club watch as Eric Patterson, age 28, washes newborn pit bull puppies that he has bred to sell in New Orleans, Friday, Aug. 14, 2015. The boxing club is run by a resident of the Lower 9th Ward to keep kids out of trouble. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • BATON ROUGE, LOUISIANA. Miss Oklahoma reacts as she wins the 2015 Miss USA contest at The Baton Rouge River Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The pageant is especially controversial this year after co-owner of Miss Universe, Donald Trump, made disparaging remarks about Mexican immigrants. (Max Becherer/Polaris Images)
  • NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Earl Benjamin, left, and Michael Robinson, show their marriage certificate and kiss in the New Orleans Parish Civil District Court building after becoming the first legally gay couple to wed in New Orleans, Louisiana. Robinson and Benjamin had been together for almost 14 years before exchanging vows in the civil ceremony. (Max Becherer/Polaris)
  • NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA. Beer holding visitors enjoy the setting sun on Jackson Square at the heart of the French Quarter in New Orleans, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2015. Katrina seemed like the final blow to a city long in decline, suffering from urban crime, white flight, the vagaries of the energy market and gross mismanagement. Roughly 80 percent of the city was under water. Hundreds of people drowned inside their homes, their bodies floating in the muck. Hospitals and police were overwhelmed. The city emptied.Now, as people describe the city’s resurgence, they reach for metaphors that verge on the Biblical: a resurrection, an economic and cultural renaissance, a rebirth. (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
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