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6 unusual facts about Lolis Eric Elie


Faubourg Treme: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

The documentary is presented from the first hand perspective of Lolis Eric Elie, a New Orleans journalist who is now a staff writer on the HBO series, Treme.

Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, is a documentary film directed by Dawn Logsdon and co-directed and written by Lolis Eric Elie.

The film follows Lolis Eric Elie and the renovation of his Treme home following hurricane Katrina.

Lolis Eric Elie is currently a staff writer on the HBO series, Tremé.

Lolis Eric Elie

Elie is an alumnus of the New Orleans Center for Creative Arts (NOCCA) and a 1981 graduate of Benjamin Franklin High School.

The Times-Picayune

For more than a decade, The Times-Picayune was also the newspaper home of Lolis Eric Elie who wrote a thrice weekly metro column.



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