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Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

The Tulane Hullabaloo

Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

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Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

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Mudbound

Josh Axelrod, Arcade Editor October 23, 2017

As if it were lifted right from the mind of William Faulkner, "Mudbound" is a Southern saga of Americans dealing with the nuanced drama of racism and poverty in rural Mississippi. Director Dee Rees is...

The Florida Project

Josh Axelrod, Arcade Editor October 23, 2017

Every so often a film comes along that captures the unflinching humanity of its characters. Following in the tradition of "Boyhood," and "Blue is the Warmest Color," Sean Baker's "The Florida Project,"...

“What would Tulane do?”

October 19, 2017

Tulane cannot trace any part of its history to a single sale or direct evidence of slave ownership. Rather, members of the Tulane community and descendants alike task it with holding itself accountable...

Frank Campbell, one of the 272 enslaved people sold in 1838, is photographed here in 1906, still working on a plantation in Southern Louisiana.

“Exactly where we left them”

October 19, 2017

A hundred and six miles and worlds away from the urban landscape of New Orleans and Tulane University sits Maringouin, a small, rural town with a population of 1,100 and a per capita income of $10,000....

The pre-sale census pictured was drawn up in 1838 in Maryland and used as the basis for the sale of 272 people. It was signed on June 19, 1838.

“Even the Titanic had survivors”

October 19, 2017

According to Cellini, a senior member appointed by Georgetown's president to a working group tasked with brainstorming potential university-wide responses to the school's ties to the slave trade told Cellini...

“West Oaks was one of three large sugar plantations in southern Louisiana to which the GU272 were sold in 1838.  The land is still used for sugar cane production today.

“We find no direct evidence of that”

October 19, 2017

Georgetown is neither the first nor the only university dealing with its historical connections to slavery. Columbia, Rutgers, Yale, Washington and Lee and others have begun initiatives and projects in...

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