NEW ORLEANS — Armand Richardson has had many careers. He's been a teacher, a musician and a photographer.
In each of these, he has also been an observer. He's seen the beauty and the ugliness in New Orleans.
There was one particularly ugly day when as a photographer documenting how New Orleans was using some federal money, he was thrust into a scene of life and death -- and racism.
His photographs in black and white revealed the division between black and white in New Orleans.
His story is part of our series of uncomfortable conversations we call "The Talk."
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