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Washington Post reporter Molly Hennessy-Fiske traveled to Winnfield in northwest Louisiana to hear how locals feel about the detention center in their town.
Political violence is quintessentially American The US cannot claim innocence – political violence shaped its past and defines its present.
Nearly 90 years later, many still believe Huey Long’s death wasn’t an assassination but an accidental killing covered up for decades.
But again, the medium is less important than the message. Trump’s oratory style is cartoonishly masculine—sorta like a mix between Huey Long and Tony Montana. For many men, however, it works.
The cocky, sweet, drawling fictional DJ’s clever name evokes both Louisiana’s populist Gov. Huey Long (1893-1935) and slavery apologist John C. Calhoun of South Carolina (1782-1850).
His fictional dictator-president, however, clearly had an American model in legendary Louisiana populist Huey Long, a former governor who had recently been elected to the U.S. Senate (and would be ...
The Huey P. Long Bridge Run offers runners a unique 5K course across the Mississippi River and a post-race celebration in Elmwood.
In addition, Huey Long, the autocratic and hugely popular populist governor and later U.S. senator from Louisiana, battled Roosevelt’s New Deal policies.
Louisiana Sen. Huey Long, meanwhile, shared recipes for southern fried oysters during his 1937 protest of the federal appointments process.