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The Amistad Research Center
will use a $1 million grant from the Terra Foundation for American Art to conserve artist Jacob Lawrence’s Toussaint L’Ouverture Series and to support a future exhibition of those works. The 41 paintings, created in 1938, show events in the Haitian Revolution led by L’Ouverture. They were last on public view in 2010 at the New Orleans Museum of Art.
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Taryn Kloth and Kristen Nuss,
who both played beach volleyball for LSU, have qualified for the 2024 Olympic Games and will represent Team USA this summer in Paris. Nuss, who is from New Orleans, and Kloth, who is from South Dakota, are the first two beach volleyball players from LSU to go to the Olympics.
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Orleans Parish
has seen a 79% increase in the number of primary and secondary syphilis cases since 2019, the New Orleans Health Department recently highlighted. Further, Louisiana ranks ninth in the country for syphilis and seventh in congenital syphilis. Louisiana has seen a surge in recent years in sexually transmitted infections, but the city’s Health Department is fighting back with “Get It On NOLA: Talk Test Treat,” a summer campaign promoting STI testing.