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Who created ‘Krazy Kat’?
George Herriman, whose comic strip “Krazy Kat” ran for three decades, was born to a prominent New Orleans Creole family in Treme.

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Tammy C. Barney is an award-winning columnist who spent most of her career at two major newspapers, The Times-Picayune and The Orlando Sentinel. She served as a bureau chief, assistant city editor, TV editor, specialty sections editor, and was the first Black woman to lead the newsroom at the Daily Comet in Thibodaux, LA. Tammy has won several writing awards, including the prestigious Vernon Jarrett Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2006 for a series of columns regarding the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans.