Our Streets: Community History for Neighborhoods

We will conduct a series of at least five open-attendance community history workshops over the course of the six months, each in different neighborhoods spanning the city (most likely Uptown, Central City, Treme, Gentilly, Algiers). Each workshop would address the history of white supremacy and black resistance in the neighborhood in which it is situated, telling the narrative of how and when white supremacist monuments, street and school names arrived and what it would mean to creatively imagine a more-just city, even to combat gentrification and racial trauma through remaking and renaming a landscape that has been scarred by 300 years of white supremacist violence, segregation and oppression. This information will also be available in a booklet of research, free of cost to workshop attendees.To keep in touch with Take Em Down Nola and The Peoples Assembly of New Orleans: https://www.facebook.com/TakeEmDownNOLA/