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Hey #nolatwitter There’s a race Sept 13th to support 9-11 heroes at Audubon park Since i haven’t seen any promotion I thought I’d share.

The Preservation Resource Center & City of New Orleans are launching the Historic Home Repair Grant to help low-to-moderate-income homeowners with exterior repairs. Open to Orleans Parish residents with homes 50+ years old. Learn more at tinyurl.com/maaeyz8y

@SeventhWard I was wrong. It’s Manhattan beach this weekend

@SeventhWard Or go hang out in frog town tomorrow also aren’t the Christmas lights in Long Beach on this weekend? Adulthood sucks. I say resign!!!

Let’s take stock of my current situation: I’m hungry, there’s no food, dirty dishes in the sink, trash to take out, I’ve outgrown this apartment and the place is a mess, I don’t know what I’m gonna eat today or tomorrow and I’ve got jury duty on Monday. This is my adulthood.

Found a kitten. Available for free adoption. Needs an indoor home. Tweet back or DM me if interested. I’ll pay for initial vet checkup and shots. Super sweet kitten. Very friendly

Rare footage of famous authors 🧵 1. The only existing video of Anne Frank, 1941

If you guys are passionate or know of any good Toy Donation Programs for the Holidays, please let us know or send us a DM. We would love to Promote Toy Drives

Slow Roasted Duck with chanterelle mushrooms tonight! Reservations available on @resy or call 504-603-2344 #fog

Sarah Rector became a multi-millionare oil baron and the richest black child at just 12 years old. She was so rich that Oklahoma legislature legally declared her to be a white person.   A THREAD!

Scrim, if you’re reading this (and we know you are), #MagazineStreet is where all the ✨cool✨ dogs hang out. 🐶 Pup-friendly patios, shopping, and plenty of places to sniff around! 🦴 🐾 Fetch our top dog-friendly picks: magazinestreet.com/insiders-guide… 📸 Photo by @SlowDownNola on IG

The opposite of Déjà vu is called Jamais vu: When you know something has happened before, but it seems unfamiliar

@BruceB010 @CohenSite Demolition by attrition *sigh* The STRs are a whole other level of social assault.

@jprsavette @CohenSite Slumlords were once reviled. I now live in a city where historic structures are allowed to deteriorate - demolition by neglect - and 200 year-old townhouses are gutted for STRs. Los Angeles is not alone in RE parasitism, sadly.

Geoff Palmer has built the exact same building for 25 years Medici completed in 2002 Ferrante is currently under construction in 2025 Can you tell which is which?

@BruceB010 @CohenSite He’s particularly bad. I worked on one of his properties and we had someone fall through a rotted balcony because he refused to fix it and that was the LEAST disturbing situation.

@jprsavette @CohenSite Did not know that, but it does not surprise me in the least. Real Estate developers in Los Angeles are like the super-incurable strain of syphilis.

@BruceB010 @CohenSite Also built so cheaply it’s damned near paper mache

@CohenSite I remember the “mysterious fire” that eliminated the former structure for the Medici to be built. What structure was mysteriously burned for the Ferrante project?

@simply_whimsy Call Paris Parker on prytania. I don’t know the guys name but I know he does curly hair.

need a new spot to get a haircut. curly hair experience. any recc's in nola? Went to stardust last time and stylist left me looking a bit like a mushroom. Maybe someone different there?

On this day in 1898, Lyda A. Newman, a black hairdresser, patented a hair brush with synthetic bristles. It was specifically made for Black hair because the previous animal hair brushes were too soft. It also permitted easy cleaning because it had detachable units. —Lyda D. Newman born in 1865 (no exact date known) was a patented inventor and involved activist for women's suffrage. She is known for the invention of the first synthetic hairbrush. Lyda spent the majority of her life living and working in New York City. Newman's primary occupation was hair care as she listed “hair specialist” or “hairdresser” in various New York City Directories and US Government Federal and New York City censuses. In the late 1800s, Newman invented a hairbrush that could be taken apart easily for cleaning because it contained a compartment at the bottom that could be removed from the back and be cleaned. The U.S. Patent 614,335 was filed on July 11, 1898 and granted on November 15, 1898. Even more important than creating her patented invention, Newman was an active community member and organizer for women's suffrage in the early 20th century. The suffrage movement was a push for women's right to vote in elections. As a suffragist, she spent her time canvasing neighborhoods in New York City, hosted street meetings to educate passing people and to support the Woman Suffrage Party, Newman started the Negro Suffrage Headquarters in Manhattan. On August 29, 1915, the New York Times noted under "Suffrage Centre for Negroes", "The Woman Suffrage Party is to open a suffrage headquarters for colored people at 207 West Sixty-third Street on Wednesday. This will be in charge of Miss Lyda Newman, who is doing excellent work for suffrage among her own people. The headquarters will be gayly decorated with suffrage posters, flags and streamers.” Unfortunately, just as in her birth there is no record of what year in which she died, however what is undeniable is that she used her money and resources to advance the cause for all women's rights. 🖋️you can support (donate) or follow our ko-fi page on AfricanArchives.Support (follow the page too for weekly posts roundup)

The US has 15 vaccines for kids <18: MMR DTaP Pneumococcal Rotavirus Varicella Hepatitis B Hepatitis A Polio Haemophilus influenzae B Meningococcal Human Papillomavirus Influenza COVID-19 RSV NOT 72. Not 72 DOSES from birth to age 18 (it’s ~35) Stop letting people lie.