Robert H. Tucker Jr., who was well-known in New Orleans as a civil-rights leader, businessman and political adviser, died March 1 at the age of 82. Services will be held at noon Saturday (March 11) at Greater St Stephen Church.
Author Archives: Katy Reckdahl
Katy Reckdahl joins Verite after working as a staff reporter for The Times-Picayune and the alt-weekly Gambit before spending a decade as a freelancer, writing frequently for the New Orleans Advocate | Times-Picayune, The New York Times and the Washington Post. She has received more than two dozen first-place New Orleans Press Club awards, the James Aronson Award for social justice reporting, a Casey Medal for Meritorious Journalism and three TV-documentary Emmy Awards. In 2020, she was a producer for The Atlantic’s Peabody Award-winning podcast, Floodlines.
