It was halftime at the John F. Kennedy High School homecoming game and two pairs of kings and queens slowly paraded down the 50-yard line as cheers filled the air. The royal couples came from two New Orleans high schools — Kennedy and Frederick A. Douglass — that had merged into one.
The students paused under the stadium’s bright lights while sparkling crowns were placed on their heads. It was a bittersweet moment for the Douglass pair, Re’Shawn Stevenson and Mikiyah Denise, would be their school’s final king and queen…