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  • 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.
  • LSU head coach Ed Orgeron and LSU quarterback Joe Burrow (9) hold up the championship trophy after the CFP National Championship Game against Clemson at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans, Monday, Jan. 13, 2020. LSU won 42-25.
  • Sandra Sterling, the aunt of Alton Sterling, a black CD seller captured on video being shot and killed by a white police officer on July 5th, cries out after viewing his body at the F.G. Clark Activity Center in Baton Rouge, La. USA, Friday, July 15, 2016. Rev. Al Sharpton, who spoke at the roughly three hour service, called for more accountability for police officers who kill African-Americans and reeled off a list of high-profile police shootings that have angered many in the black community: {quote}We have an inferior judicial system that does not protect all of its citizens equally.{quote} (AP Photo/Max Becherer)
  • Portraits included in non-unanimous jury project that was awarded the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. Wilfred Moliere, 68, is pictured in his home in front of a painting depicting a scene of the Underground Railroad in Marrero, La., Friday, April 20, 2018. Moliere was a holdout juror in the 1998 trial of Travis Hayes, which ended in a 10-2 vote. Hayes' murder conviction was later overturned.
  • 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.
  • KENNER, LOUISIANA. Louisiana gubernatorial candidate, Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and his wife Wendy are comforted by their supporters after announcing his defeat at his election night watch party in Kenner, La., Saturday, Nov. 21, 2015. (AP Photo/Max Becherer )
  • Danielle Blount kisses her 3-month-old baby Ember and feeds her while they wait to be evacuated by members of the Louisiana Army National Guard near Walker, La. USA, after heavy rains inundated the region, Sunday, Aug. 14, 2016. Downpours in some areas of southern Louisiana came close to 2 feet over a 48-hour period according to the National Weather Service. (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. 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)
  • GAZA STRIP. Hafez Abbas, 9, stands in a destroyed building in the Beit Hanun neighborhood of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, October 28, 2014. Hafez Abbas, age 9 - Beit Hanun, Gaza Strip. “We had a very beautiful garden but it was totally demolished, I swear it was very beautiful. The IDF (Israeli Defense Force) called us so many times telling us to leave our house. We refused to evacuate the house but finally we had to leave and they totally destroyed it. We relocated to a UN school but it was bad. We had no water to drink. I am just now coming from my uncle’s house that was demolished by the IDF. I went to get some of my things from under the rubble but we found nothing, even the door disappeared.”
  • Baluchistan Province, Pakistan. The welders and laborers who dismantle aged cargo and tanker ships work long days and brave the dangerous work for around two dollars a day at the Gaddani Beach ship breaking yards in Baluchistan Province, Pakistan on Tuesday, February 26, 2008. Most workers come from the Northwest Frontier province and Baluchistan where unemployment is high and fundamentalism has flourished.
  • Families mourn as they walk in a procession to the graveyard to bury a dead child after a rocket attack killed at least 10 people and wounded 46 on July 28, 2014. The rockets landed on a park in Gaza City in the Gaza Strip where children were playing in celebration of Eid al-Fitr, the holiday marking the end of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
  • TRIPOLI, LYBIA. Libyans celebrate with fireworks and flags as they are addressed by Ali Tarhouni, Libyan National Transitional Council minister of oil and finance, in Martyrs Square from a stage in front of hundreds of celebrating Libyans on Monday, August 8, 2011.
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