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In a city brimming with cultural turmoil amid a push for racial equality, one young boy with a heart of gold witnesses astonishing changes in 1970s New Orleans.Sixth-grader French Fry and his group of misfit friends are growing up during the first years of desegregation at their public elementary school. Even though the change is slow and the conflict is high, they are often blind to injustice. The friends ultimately handle the transformation ...

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Beneath the New Orleans pizzazz is a heritage of pollution, class inequality and unethical business that puts profit before the well-being of employees and the environment. Sebastian Delacroix experiences this first hand while watching his father toil as a mechanic at an aluminum plant fraught with daily hazards that take a toll on workers' physical health and the surrounding environment. Eventually, Chalmette Aluminum's promises of prosperity...

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Roy LeBlanc studied Liberal Arts and Social Science at Tulane University, graduating with a Master of Liberal Arts in 1998 and a Bachelor of Arts in 1990. Roy has served as President of a New Orleans Hospital Board, President of a Community College Foundation, and held political office in Louisiana. In 1990 he delivered a commencement address at Tulane University College. Later he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Humanities degree from Baptis...

In 1987, Andre Dupree was elected as a member of the Louisiana State Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. According to a Louisiana newspaper he was the youngest person ever elected to a major Louisiana political office. As a 23 year old college student he won the election by defeating a college president and the president of a powerful teacher's union. Luck was on Andre's side when a jealous husband attempted to assassinate the college...

In the end only one thing really matters. The dead should count on resting peacefully. Everyone deserves a comfortable grave." In Comfortable Graves we meet two lifelong friends, Clarence and Andre. Growing up in New Orleans, the boys have always had each other's backs. Andre helps Clarence get through middle school, high school, and college by writing his papers and doing his math homework. In return, Clarence, a good-natured, blue-eyed Cre...