Two-Day Juneteenth Event at Historic St. James AME Church

#foogallery-gallery-13193 .fg-image { width: 699px; } Prev 1of8 Next Launching of the multi-year initiative BLACK SQUARE NARRATIVES 1823 – 2023 A Bicentennial Activation of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 in New Orleans, Louisiana The Louisiana Museum of African American History (LMAAH) The Louisiana Museum of African American History or LMAAH presents a two-day Juneteenth event, in partnership with the National Trust for Historic Preservation National Park Service, and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, at the Historic St. James African Methodist Episcopal Church to launch its new, multi-year initiative BLACK SQUARE NARRATIVES 1823 – 2023. With education and democratic, civic activation for the preservation and promotion of Black Square, in St. Louis Cemetery No. 2 in New Orleans, Louisiana as its mission, LMAAH will facilitate a two-year, multi-organizational, collaborative research and writing initiative, to develop a new archive referred to as the BLACK SQUARE NARRATIVES Archive. In addition, LMAAH will commission a new, interdisciplinary, authoritative body to produce the archive, referred to as the NEW ORLEANS BLACK SQUARE NETWORK (NOBSN) pronounced NO-B-S-N. Scholars and Artists will be invited to produce new, interdisciplinary works based on research in the BLACK SQUARE NARRATIVES Archive. “This grant will allow us to...