THE NEW ORLEANS TRIBUNE - Ensuring that Black business owners and purveyors of the city’s authentic culture benefit from the tourism dollars that pour into the city matters to us for several reasons. We were there more than 30 years ago when the late Clarence Barney pushed for the creation of the Black Tourism Network, an organization that advocated for the inclusion of Black New Orleans in the industry and one that we believed lost purpose and power when its name was changed to the Multicultural Tourism Network.| By The New Orleans Tribune If NOTCF is going to make a difference for the culture bearers at the heart of the city’s $10 billion a year tourism industry, it cannot continue the same old practices under a new name. We were there when the New Orleans Tourism and Cultural Fund announced it’s grant program […]