The New Orleans musician Big Freedia, who recently released a new album, Pressing Onward, presides over her three dogs like royalty. “I’m the queen and my dogs are my little kings,” she says. Freedia ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — This week is the New Orleans Film Festival, and one of the feature films being shown is “West of Greatness: The Story of the Westwego Muscle Boys” about the amateur bodybuilding ...

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"There have been a lot of dark roads and I just needed a path of life for myself as well," says Big Freedia "And I know that the world needs it as much as I do." (Photo by Hunter Holder) When a ...

Big Freedia’s voice has always been a force — loud, joyful, defiant — but on her new album, “Pressing Onward,” it becomes something even more powerful: a vessel for healing. The Queen of Bounce ...

Australia is making a major bet on biofuels as part of its net-zero ambitions. On Wednesday, the government announced it will invest A$1.1 billion (US$735 million) over the next decade to develop a ...

Internationally loved rapper Big Freedia, a larger-than-life ambassador of New Orleans bounce, is making her return to Music City after a powerhouse appearance at Nashville Pride in June. She’ll be ...

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Combining bounce and Southern gospel, the New Orleans icon’s latest album offers a vibrant and unabashedly queer take on worship music. Save this story Save this story Faith in an omniscient, ...

When the iconic “Queen Of Bounce” Big Freedia set out to make her first-ever gospel album, she did it to spread joy and hope to a world at a time when we needed it most. She never imagined how much ...

NPR's Ari Shapiro talks with Big Freedia about her new album, "Pressing Onward," and how her childhood singing in the church led her to this... Big Freedia takes bounce music to church on new album, ...

Baptist preacher and blues musician the Rev. Robert Jones Sr. once told an interviewer that “the sacred and the secular grew up right next to each other,” backing his claim with Psalm 30:5: “Weeping ...