New Orleans / Louis Armstrong / Cornell Charles / Dicky Zulu

New Orleans / Louis Armstrong / Cornell Charles / Dicky Zulu #1259531

CBS Evening News for Saturday, Apr 25, 2020
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These are tough times in New Orleans. The pandemic has mostly silenced the Big Easy. And CBS's Mireya Villarreal reports. Taken a deadly toll. For more than a century, the prestigious Zulu crew has been front and center at Mardi Gras celebrations. The historic group has roughly 800 members. Most of them black Zulu Social Aid and Pleasure Club, is known for their charity work and community outreach. Web sites and jazz great Louis Armstrong served as Zulu's king in 1949. But in recent months, at l...

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