In normal times, a Zulu king would be remembered differently.
Former kings of the Zulu Social and Aid Pleasure Club would gather dressed in white suits and crowns. And a big procession would pass the organization's clubhouse on North Broad Street in Treme.
But the ceremony Wednesday to honor 2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond, who died March 31 after contracting the coronavirus, isn't happening during a normal time.
"This is crazy. We are saying goodbye to a Zulu king by driving by a house," said New Orleans City Councilman Jay Banks, who reigned as King Zulu in 2016. "This would've been one of the biggest funerals in the history of the organization had it not been for this pandemic."
Rewritten from information published on The Times-Picayune website (https://www.nola.com/).
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2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond sitting in a chair at his home in Algiers. Hammond was among the hundreds of Louisiana residents who died after contracting the coronavirus. (Photo courtesy of The Times-Picayune)
Pallbearers in New Orleans escort the casket of Larry Hammond, who died of COVID-19 in the pandemic's early weeks. Government health officials say Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are two to three times more likely than white people to die of COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Times / Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
Former kings of the Zulu Social and Aid Pleasure Club would gather dressed in white suits and crowns. And a big procession would pass the organization's clubhouse on North Broad Street in Treme.
But the ceremony Wednesday to honor 2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond, who died March 31 after contracting the coronavirus, isn't happening during a normal time.
"This is crazy. We are saying goodbye to a Zulu king by driving by a house," said New Orleans City Councilman Jay Banks, who reigned as King Zulu in 2016. "This would've been one of the biggest funerals in the history of the organization had it not been for this pandemic."
Rewritten from information published on The Times-Picayune website (https://www.nola.com/).
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2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond sitting in a chair at his home in Algiers. Hammond was among the hundreds of Louisiana residents who died after contracting the coronavirus. (Photo courtesy of The Times-Picayune)
Pallbearers in New Orleans escort the casket of Larry Hammond, who died of COVID-19 in the pandemic's early weeks. Government health officials say Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are two to three times more likely than white people to die of COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Times / Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
In normal times, a Zulu king would be remembered differently.
Former kings of the Zulu Social and Aid Pleasure Club would gather dressed in white suits and crowns. And a big procession would pass the organization's clubhouse on North Broad Street in Treme.
But the ceremony Wednesday to honor 2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond, who died March 31 after contracting the coronavirus, isn't happening during a normal time.
"This is crazy. We are saying goodbye to a Zulu king by driving by a house," said New Orleans City Councilman Jay Banks, who reigned as King Zulu in 2016. "This would've been one of the biggest funerals in the history of the organization had it not been for this pandemic."
Rewritten from information published on The Times-Picayune website (https://www.nola.com/).
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2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond sitting in a chair at his home in Algiers. Hammond was among the hundreds of Louisiana residents who died after contracting the coronavirus. (Photo courtesy of The Times-Picayune)
Pallbearers in New Orleans escort the casket of Larry Hammond, who died of COVID-19 in the pandemic's early weeks. Government health officials say Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are two to three times more likely than white people to die of COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Times / Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
Former kings of the Zulu Social and Aid Pleasure Club would gather dressed in white suits and crowns. And a big procession would pass the organization's clubhouse on North Broad Street in Treme.
But the ceremony Wednesday to honor 2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond, who died March 31 after contracting the coronavirus, isn't happening during a normal time.
"This is crazy. We are saying goodbye to a Zulu king by driving by a house," said New Orleans City Councilman Jay Banks, who reigned as King Zulu in 2016. "This would've been one of the biggest funerals in the history of the organization had it not been for this pandemic."
Rewritten from information published on The Times-Picayune website (https://www.nola.com/).
*****
2007 King Zulu Larry Hammond sitting in a chair at his home in Algiers. Hammond was among the hundreds of Louisiana residents who died after contracting the coronavirus. (Photo courtesy of The Times-Picayune)
Pallbearers in New Orleans escort the casket of Larry Hammond, who died of COVID-19 in the pandemic's early weeks. Government health officials say Native Americans, Latinos and Black people are two to three times more likely than white people to die of COVID-19. (Photo courtesy of the Los Angeles Times / Gerald Herbert / Associated Press)
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