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The Tulane Hullabaloo

Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

The Tulane Hullabaloo

Student newspaper serving Tulane University, Uptown New Orleans

The Tulane Hullabaloo

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OPINION | Addressing inhumanity in Angola Prison

Alya Satchu, Views Editor August 28, 2024

The Louisiana sun beats down on the faces of laborers working between rows of harvesting crops. With wooden shovels in hand, these imprisoned workers spend hours under the close examination of officers...

OPINION | Amendment 7: Lesson in voter awareness

OPINION | Amendment 7: Lesson in voter awareness

Doxey Kamara, Intersections Editor December 8, 2022

Louisiana Amendment 7, which appeared on voter ballots in November, has caused some confusion among voters. While involuntary servitude is generally unlawful in the United States, there is one exception....

Political science professors analyze midterms

Political science professors analyze midterms

Olivia Warren, Associate News Editor December 7, 2022

Midterm election decisions enacted new state constitutional amendments, bringing new changes for Louisiana and New Orleans beyond Senate and Congressional elections. Eight proposed amendments to the...

The 13th amendment should have ended slavery. Instead, it only hid the practice behind bars.

OPINION | 13th Amendment’s great failure

Doxey Kamara, Intersections Editor October 20, 2021

  Constitutional Amendments typically assure certain rights to Americans. The 26th Amendment, for example, mandates that all citizens over 18 years of age have the right to vote. The 15th Amendment...

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Entangled with plantation history, Tulane removes iconic campus bell

Sanjali De Silva, Senior Staff Reporter March 5, 2020

According to tradition, it only rings twice a year: once for convocation and once for commencement.  Graduating seniors in the Class of 2020 were gearing up to hear the Victory Bell ring — until...

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Tulane removes ‘Victory Bell’ from McAlister, cites symbol’s connection to slavery

Sanjali De Silva, Senior Staff Reporter February 27, 2020

As students made their morning commutes to class on Thursday, something distinct was missing from the familiar route: the McAlister Victory Bell. The bell was removed today after a discovery from a Tulane...

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Tulane cannot ignore its historical roots to slavery

Jackson Faulkner, Staff Writer October 23, 2019

Jackson Faulkner is currently writing an undergraduate honors thesis on the social history of the deBore plantation, which comprised part of the land that is currently Tulane University. Without question,...

Cornelius Hawkins' gravesite is pictured at the Immaculate Heart of Mary Cemetery in Maringouin, LA. Hawkins was born in 1825, was sold in 1838 and died in 1902.

“What happened to the people”: 1838 sale of 272 people challenges universities to evaluate ties to enslavement

Canela Lopez and October 19, 2017

"For the promotion and the encouragement of intellectual, moral and industrial education among the white young persons in the city of New Orleans." These are words of the original charter, penned by...

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