The word at the sixth annual Juneteenth Festival in New Orleans on Thursday was heritage. Among the throngs who gathered in ...

The sixth annual NOLA Juneteenth Festival will begin at noon on Thursday at Congo Square in Louis Armstrong Park. Though it ...

In her important book Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans, historian Freddi Williams Evans has documented the history of Congo Square, a site in New Orleans where records from the early ...

The importance of what happened in Congo Square, not only to the history of New Orleans but to American culture at large, is neatly caught in a phrase that becomes a leitmotif of Sublette’s book.

Today, the gatherings have been revived by a coterie of local-history aficionados, accompanied by the intermittent gaggle of students or tourists. As one of the leaders of the Congo Square ...

The Congo Square event is one of four two-day music ... It also was designed to celebrate the city's musical history and help stimulate the cultural economy, said Scott Aiges, spokesman for ...

Gregory Christie, and it’s educating young readers about a little-known story in slave history. Freedom in Congo Square takes readers back to 18 th century Louisiana, where a New Orleans city ...

Congo Square is located in the Tremé neighborhood ... You can learn about “King’s life, his career, and stories of the Delta—its history and music, social mores and race relations ...

The ensemble of the 25-year-old Congo Square Theatre Company, one of Chicago’s most venerable and important Black theaters and a company the playwright August Wilson said should be supported in ...

Ericka Ratcliff, Congo Square artistic director of “How Blood ... judgments and beliefs are evidence of a history of African Americans and their struggles with the medical establishment to ...

Within days of that letter being sent, the Congo Square website was listed as “under construction,” and scrubbed of the names of the ensemble members and the production history. In the case of ...