NNPA NEWSWIRE — Hurricane Ida’s devastation claimed the Karnofsky Tailor Shop and Residence, “second-home” of famed jazz legend Louis Armstrong. A viral social media video captured Ida destroying the shop at 427 South Rampart Street in New Orleans. Armstrong grew up near the shop, and by the age of 12, was known to frequent the place owned by the Karnofsky family, who offered him a job.
Dede Ayite became the first Black Woman to win a Tony Award for Best Costume Design of a Play for her work on Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, a play that explores the lives of ten Black immigrant women in a Harlem hair salon.
