NEW ORLEANS - This weekend marks 50 years since the deadliest fire in New Orleans history ripped through a French Quarter gay bar, killing 32 people. The Up Stairs Lounge arson is the second deadliest ...
Fifty years ago tomorrow, the Up Stairs Lounge fire killed 32 people in a gay bar overlooking Iberville and Chartres streets in the New Orleans French Quarter. The ghastly blaze and its aftermath ...
Every social movement in American history has a body count. From Wounded Knee to Emmett Till to the children of Uvalde, death inevitably forces us to reckon with violations of our basic liberties. For ...
Forty-nine years after 32 people died in a suspected arson attack at the French Quarter gay bar the Up Stairs Lounge, the New Orleans City Council formally apologized Thursday for the city’s botched ...