Nick Page is headlining with Stuart Black, Sarah Pearce and MC Danny Ward on the bill.

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They were of dog owners, mostly the working-class poor in heavily black neighborhoods like the now famous Ninth Ward, who refused to evacuate without their four-legged loved ones - cats too.

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Those 120 homes are all in the 9th Ward, which has a predominantly black population.

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The idea of legislating for black economic empowerment was originally promoted by big white businessmen to ward off post-apartheid calls for nationalisation.

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His support among black voters, never great, was as battered as the Lower Ninth Ward.

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Just by way of example, when you clump poor people together and when you clump poor, black people together, like we saw in New Orleans in the Ninth Ward, it's much harder for those families to lift themselves out of poverty.

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Williams has hired an important black activist, Phillip Pannell, as an adviser, and Pannell opened a campaign office in Ward 8, Barry's home turf.

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