Pony Poindexter: Lost Titan of New Orleans Jazz
Pony Poindexter’s old jazz group, the Black Panthers of the Figuerettes had a good run in Ibiza back in the fifties. They were booked by Bad Jack Hand, an ex-US soldier who had taken it on the lam before briefly making his way to the white isle. I say briefly because he ended up back on the mainland serving a life sentence in a Spanish penitentiary for a murder rap.
KKK Stronghold Bogalusa in 1965
Sometimes you have to meet violence with greater violence.
That was the creed espoused by the Deacons for Defense and Justice, a paramilitary group of Black men dedicated to protecting civil rights workers and regular Black citizens during the bloody battles pitched on the city streets and country roads of Jim Crow-era Louisiana.
Cajuns, Rednecks, And Longhairs: Notes On The Celebration Of Life Music Festival in Point Coupee Parish, Louisiana
Instead it careered out of control with drownings, gunfire, and kids overdosing on methadone.
Antoinette Frank, date of photo unknown
Telly Hankton
His prisoner number is #589293.
Mr. Hankton became public enemy number one when New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu held a press conference decrying the murder of bar manager Curtis Matthews at Jazz Daiquiri bar on South Claiborne Avenue in October of 2011.
The mayor staged the presser on the neutral ground of Claiborne Avenue, one of the busiest thoroughfares in the city.
Len Davis
Len Davis was a cold-blooded killer, a bodyguard to drug traffickers, and most importantly, a New Orleans police officer with such a fearsome reputation that he was known as “the Desire Terrorist,” an appellation he earned by cracking skulls and robbing drug dealers in the Desire Projects of New Orleans 9th Ward.
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