The seventh annual Tipping Point all-star benefit concert returns to The Fillmore New Orleans on Oct. 20 to support scholarships for Tulane students. Headlining performers include blues-rock icon Warren Haynes of Gov’t Mule, formerly of the Allman Brothers Band; three-time Grammy Award winner guitarist, singer-songwriter and contemporary blues ambassador Joe Bonamassa; soulful singer-songwriter Allen Stone; and rising soul and R&B singer-songwriter and guitarist Celisse.
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World-renowned paleoanthropologist Lee Berger of University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa gave lectures to students in two of Tulane Anthropology Professor Trenton Holliday’s classes. Berger, a current National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence, is most well-known for his discovery of two hominin species. Read more on the Tulane News website.
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The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine’s health equity research learning collaborative, Partners for Advancing Health Equity, has partnered with the National Medical Association (NMA). The goal of the partnership is to support the NMA in its efforts to improve health equity practices within the organization and for those it serves. Read more on the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine website.
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“Jivin’ with Dr. Daddy-O: Race, Radio and Representing Black in Jim Crow New Orleans” will take place on Monday, Oct. 2, from noon to 1 p.m. via Zoom. Vernon “Dr. Daddy-O” Winslow was the first Black disc jockey to host his own program on New Orleans radio. The event will highlight Winslow’s groundbreaking contributions to broadcasting and how they can inform interdisciplinary approaches to radio preservation and history. Melissa A. Weber, curator of the Hogan Archive of New Orleans Music and New Orleans Jazz, will give a presentation that she shared at the Library of Congress’ Radio Preservation Task Force 2023 conference, which highlights how preservation contributes to the history and creation of mass media at community, local, national and international levels. This event is presented as part of American Archives Month, celebrated in October, and is sponsored by the Professional Development Committee of Tulane University Libraries. Read more about the event on the Tulane University Libraries website.
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ABC News
Lisa LaViers, assistant professor at the A. B. Freeman School of Business who studies executive pay and its effect on workers, spoke to ABC News about the United Auto Workers strike and the surge in CEO pay across the U.S. economy in recent years.
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