Black Creole Chronicles
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My guest today is an author, folklorist, educator, scholar, and former Poet Laureate of Louisiana.
Dr. Mona Lisa Saloy writes about her life as a black Creole in her 7th Ward neighborhood, as well as about the larger perspective of the black experience, in Louisiana and beyond.
This discussion was a joy. I hope you enjoy it, too.
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