00:00Thank you Kenny, thank you. Welcome everybody. I don't want to hold y'all up
00:05but I just want to say a few words that every year we bring people from all over
00:10the world to our beautiful city of New Orleans. And this year we wanted to
00:15invite the world to learn and celebrate about our culture. So if you haven't
00:19picked up the July August issue of the Essence Festival, you need to go pick
00:24them things up. Now y'all already know that we got traditions that go back 300
00:28years, but this year it was special for us to capture that on film and we had the
00:34honor of working with none other than New Orleans' very own and director of
00:40Katrina Babies, Edward Buckles Jr. But tomorrow night at the Convention Center
00:44you'll be able to watch out, you'll be able to watch the premiere of the film at
00:49the Convention Center at the Essence Film Festival. Play the trailer.
00:54bubblegum bubblegum bubblegum in a dish how many pieces do you wish there's only black
01:03New Orleans everything else fits itself around there.
01:06four, five, seven, eight, nine, two.
01:09We are the most resilient people on this planet. No matter what's going on in our city, in this world, we still.
01:29You can't tell nobody from the long as nothing. I can go anywhere in the world head yelled
01:36hi because of the city that I'm from.
01:38Welcome into the stage Edward Buckles Jr. and our lovely
01:44lovely, lovely, lovely cover stars for the July-August issue. Check, check, check, check, check, check, check.
01:53Y'all look beautiful. What up New Orleans?
01:57Yo, so look, check it out. Check it out. I already know that they got people from all over the world out here.
02:06But if you're from New Orleans, make some noise. You know what I'm saying? What up G?
02:15So look, I ain't gonna take up too much time because I know that y'all wanna see Urshah.
02:20Um, but I did the magazine covers and it was important for me to put on for Black New Orleans, you understand?
02:29Because I feel like we the source and we the reference for everything, right?
02:34So I got some very important people here with me tonight. And I also thought it was super important that we highlighted them as well.
02:52Hey T, how you doing? What up Raven? So, first of all, Hakeem, come here, man.
02:56I want y'all to make some noise for my guy, Hakeem.
03:00commitment. I want y'all to make some noise for my guy, Hakeem, who has been effortlessly
03:06trying to make sure that New Orleans has a presence with this festival. Feel me? So
03:11we appreciate you. All right, thank you. And if I can real quick, I just want to introduce
03:18everybody to y'all. That's my niece, Cori. This is Mohawk Hunter's baby doll, Bella.
03:25Mohawk Hunter's Lil' Queen Asia. Mohawk Hunter's Lil' Queen Zoe. And bruh, do I really have to
03:41introduce Queen Tosh? Do I really have to introduce Queen Tosh? From way, way uptown, way uptown,
03:53we got my guy, Spy Boy. Spy Boy, Jawan, you know what I'm saying? Jersey and Andrew Mara. Y'all
04:06make some noise for them? All right. That's a lot of names, y'all. Sorry. And all the way from
04:14Algiers out there, 1.5, you heard me? All the way from Algiers, we got Big Chief Tyrone Casby.
04:21You know what I'm saying? So Black New Orleans, thank y'all so much for all the love. If you
04:28haven't seen Katrina Babies, go check that out. And y'all come and check out the film tomorrow
04:32at the Essence Film Festival called Dear New Orleans. And New Orleans, we outside.
04:37Go check it out.
04:46And they stood out there to be by for Joe Malam care. Like you said, you can take him off the
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