Live from the Lost City of New Orleans

How I learned to love a place I didn’t like. And the role played by Black railroad men like my father in shaping the Great Migration, the Black middle class & civil rights.

In order to love a place, you must love someone who lives there.

When I worked in TV news, New Orleans was never on my assignment list. My jobs were in San Francisco and Atlanta, the cities where I lived and worked.

But lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the storied city where my mother was born. Call it chance, the Universe, or synchronicity — the Cr…