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South Arts,
which supports artists and arts organizations in Southern states, recently named New Orleans poet Karisma Price and Natchitoches artist Edgar Cano Lopez its 2025 Louisiana Fellows. South Arts’ annual State Fellows for Literary Arts and Visual Arts program awards 18 artists in the South with $5,000 grants to support their work. Later this year, two artists from the fellowship class will win the larger Southern Prizes for Literary Arts and Visual Arts.
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The Beta Tau Alumni Association,
a group of Xavier University of Louisiana alumni who are part of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity’s Beta Tau chapter, has raised $250,000 for an endowment to fund five scholarships at the university. The Beta Tau Alumni Association wants to go further and raise an additional $250,000 to support other programs at Xavier, like a lecture series with artists and scholars.
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Atlantic Alumina,…