More than a decade after a NOPD officer
shot an unarmed Henry Glover as he stood
in the parking lot of a Westbank strip mall
just days after Hurricane Katrina and anoth-
er cop later burned Glover’s remains in a car
on a Mississippi River levee, the Glover
family is still looking for justice.
Former NOPD Officer David Warren, the
cop who shot Glover, was initially convict-
ed and later acquitted in an appeal. The
family tried for years to get then Orleans
Parish Coroner Frank Minyard to change
the classification of Glover’s death from
“undetermined” to “homicide,” which he
failed to do before retiring several years
ago. Louisiana Attorney General Buddy
Caldwell declined to weigh in on the case
after Minyard said he needed additional
information to make a decision. Since then,
Orleans Parish Coroner Dr. Jeffrey Rouse
has classified Glover’s death as a homicide
but Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon
Cannizzaro has not made a decision about
whether to indict David Warren.
Former NOPD Officer Gregory McRae,
the only cop behind bars for his role in the
case, was sentenced to 17 years behind bars
On Friday, a Civil District Court judge
denied a request for a preliminary injunction
blocking the removal of the Battle of Liberty
Place monument and three statues honoring
Confederate leaders in New Orleans.
Judge Piper Griffin denied the injunction
sought by the Monumental Task Committee
to block the removal of three monuments —
Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and P.G.T.
Beauregard — that the City of New Orleans
is seeking. A fourth monument, the Liberty
Place monument, is federally protected. The
New Orleans native and
NOCCA grad Anthony Mackie, a
rising star in Hollywood, will
make history this Carnival sea-
son as the first African American
to reign as King of the Krewe of
Bacchus. The organization,
which parades on the Sunday
night before Fat Tuesday, made
the announcement recently.
As the Krewe of Bacchus’
celebrity king, Mackie follows
in the footsteps of fellow New
Orleanians Harry Connick Jr.,
Pete Fountain and actor John
In 1908, John L. Metoyer and members of a
New Orleans Mutual aid society called “The
Tramps”, attended a vaudevillian comedy show
called, There Never Was and Never Will Be a
King Like Me. The musical comedy performed
by the “Smart Set” at the Pythian Temple
Theater on the corner of Gravier and Saratoga
streets in New Orleans, included a skit where
the characters wore grass skirts and dressed in
blackface Metoyer became inspired by the skit
and reorganized his marching troupe from
baggy-pant-wearing tramps to a new group
called the “Zulus.” In 1909, Metoyer and the
first Zulu king, William Story, wore a lard-can
crown and carried a banana stalk as a scepter
Six years later in 1915, the first decorated plat-
form was constructed with dry goods boxes on a
spring wagon. The King’s float was decorated
with tree moss and palmetto leaves
In 1916, the Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club
became incorporated where the organization’s
bylaws were established as well as its social mis-
sion and dedication to benevolence and goodwill.
In 1933, the Lady Zulu Auxiliary was formed
by the wives of Zulu members, and in 1948,
Edwina Robertson became the first Queen of
Zulu, making the club the first to feature a queen
Editor’s Note
: The following article by
Truthbetold.news reveals how an unfounded,
unproven and apparently false statistic pertain-
ing to spending by Black consumers with Black-
owned businesses has been circulating in the
Black community. Cited recently by several news
agencies, including Roland Martin’s “NewsOne
Now” and the Trice Edney News Wire, the statis-
tic is often used to compare spending in the Black
community with other ethnicities by stating that
the dollar stays in the Black community only
about six hours. The statistic has been for years
repeated by authorities on Black economic jus-
tice. Here, the
TruthBeTold.news
article details
the exhaustive fact-finding and research methods
that found the statistic to be baseless.
(Special to the Trice Edney News Wire from
TruthBeTold.news
)
– Two weeks ago, journal-
ist Roland Martin, host of “NewsOne Now,”
cited a figure that has often been used to show
how little Blacks spend in their neighborhoods
compared to other racial and ethnic groups.
The lifespan of a dollar in the Asian community
is 28 days, in the Jewish community the lifespan of
a dollar is 19 days and the lifespan in the African-
American community is approximately six hours,
Martin said during his news talk show on the
Black-owned cable network TV One.
Maggie Anderson, a guest on the show and
author of
Our Black Year: One Family’s Quest
to Buy Black in America’s Racially Divided
Economy
, which was published in 2012, nod-
ded in agreement.
Anderson, a proponent of Blacks spending
more with Black-owned business, has often used
the “six hours” figure. In a series of talks around
the country and in her book, she uses the figure
to argue that African Americans need to do more
to support Black-owned businesses.
Anderson isn’t alone. The “six hours” circulation
statistic is an often-cited figure by a wide variety of
individuals, organizations and news outlets.
The figures have been attributed to various
sources including the NAACP and the Selig Center
for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.
But does a dollar spent by Black people really
stay in the community for only six hours?
The Facts
To fact-check the statistic,
TruthBeTold.news
tried
to track down the source of this widely cited figure.
Several federal government agencies produce
data on Black spending patterns.
The Federal Reserve Bank publishes a survey
of consumer finance that contains information on
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ften stated as fact
Latest effort to
stop removal of
statues denied
Zulu marks 100th year of incorporation
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