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https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressmen-carter-honors-life-jerome-big-duck-smith	Congressmen Carter Honors the Life of Jerome “Big Duck” Smith	2026-08-21	2026	2026-08	Democrat	House	LA	Troy A. Carter	C001125	troycarter.house.gov	troycarter	https://troycarter.house.gov/media/press-releases	scraper	WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, New Orleans lost a giant, and I lost a friend. Jerome “Big Duck” Smith was a freedom fighter, a mentor and a servant of this community who loved his people deeply. Duck didn’t have much patience for excuses. If our children needed something, he was going to fight until somebody listened. That was Big Duck. It was never about Jerome. It was always about somebody else. His civil rights work did not stop with the movement of the 1960s. He spent the rest of his life carrying that work forward through Tambourine and Fan, teaching generations of young people where they came from, what they were capable of, and why they mattered. I am grateful that I had the chance to know him, work with him, laugh with him and, yes, sometimes be pushed by him. More than anything, I am grateful that I was able to tell him while he was still here what he meant to me and what he meant to this city. New Orleans is better because Big Duck walked these streets. To his family, his loved ones and the entire Tambourine and Fan family, my prayers are with you. Rest well, my brother. Thank you for loving this city and its people enough to spend your life fighting for them. Rest in power, Big Duck.	1	2026-08-22T05:24:59Z	2026-08-22T05:26:16Z