Everyone loves a story about a hooker with a heart of gold. But have you heard the one about the madam into mutual aid and honey trapping white supremacists? As the kids say: It slaps. Nellie Jackson was born the grandchild of freed slaves around 1902 in Mississippi, a draw…

You already know 1984’s creepy Halloween classic Nightmare on Elm Street, but you probably have no idea how freaking scary the ORIGINAL “Fuckery on Elm Street” tale actually is. …

Louisiana is overgrown with beautiful history, but September 28th is a day from our past so ugly most locals never learn about it. Gather round, spooky history nerds and die-hard New Orleans fans. It’s time to get you caught up on The Massacre at Opelousas. Flashback to September 1868. Summer…

Americans drop more cash on health care annually than any other industrialized nation, but more of our babies AND mothers die as a result of childbirth than almost any other wealthy country in the world. On the list of 36 OECD countries we rank 33rd, with only Turkey, Chile, and…

Reverse Freedom Rides: How Racists Tricked Black Americans Out Of Their Homes Last month America lost beloved civil rights activist Representative John Lewis, famous as one of the brave “Freedom Riders” who rode south to New Orleans in a push for desegregation. Nearly all of the tributes since his passing…

Stir-Crazy? At Least Your Secret Lover Didn’t Lock You In the Attic for Ten Years In the early 1900s a beautiful young German immigrant named “Dolly” Korschel (birth name Walburga) met and married her boss, Fred Oesterreich, a wealthy factory owner. Raised dirt poor on a downtrodden Midwestern farm, affluent…

A young father who has battled cancer with success by radically changing the way he lives asked me the following question last week: “Why is it that so many people want the easier path (a vaccine, or a pill to treat symptoms) as opposed to doing the work and building…

Vitamin D is Critical in Preventing COVID-19 Deaths I’ve spoken to a few clients this week who haven’t been outside in a week or more, not even once, because of fear about contracting COVID-19. As a patient-practitioner with a very wonky immune system, I very much understand the essential need…