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Hot 8 Visit To Purdue

The Hot 8 Brass Band plays during a New Orleans style parade following Saturday's football game. The parade was part of the Black Cultural Center's Friends and Family Day.  (9/22/2008)

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Hot 8 Music Outreach Program July

The students are now working on their very own song (the title of this song is still being voted on by the students.)  Please stay posted for the title release and song! 

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Hot 8 Music Outreach Program

“We are happy and excited to have the opportunity to reach out and give back what we’ve learned from others such as Dr. Michael White, Leroy Jones, Greg Stafford, Brass Bands of New Orleans (Dirty Dozens, Rebirth, Treme, etc) We must share our wisdom and life with youth says band member and trumpet player Raymond “Dr. Rackle” Williams.

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Third World Coalition in N.O.

On June 11th the Third World Coalition visited the city of New Orleans. The group lead by Mr. Darryl Jordan, of the American Friends Service Committee, hosted an amazing interactive cultural reception at the George & Leah McKenna Museum of African American Arts.

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HOT 8 @ FAMU

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March for Right of Return

Survivor's Assembly and March for Right of Return.
New Orleans, LA: December 10, 2005
Photos by Helena Brown.

 

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Silence is Violence

Here are some photos from the Silence is Violence event in honor of Dinerral Shavers featuring Dr. White and Shamarr Allan

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Houma, LA & Gulfport, MS & New Orleans

These are photos submitted online from Houma, LA, Gulfport, MS and the Treme area of New Orleans. Photos by Tufara Muhammad (to submit your own photo gallery email photos to: photos@findingourfolk.org)

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New Orleans

Photos by Betty Bastidas of New Orleans, taken in the ninth ward and at gatherings surrounding the Finding Our Folk Tour

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Chicago Youth Travel to the Gulf

Chicago youth and activists from The Young People's Project, travel to Gulf Region. Included are shots from the "Right to Return" march in New Orleans the weekend of December 10th.

 

 

 

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New Orleans After Katrina

Pictures of the City of New Orleans after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina.

 

 

 

 

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Baton Rouge, LA

Photos taken by Betty Bastidas in a makeshift trailer park, "Rennasaince Village" in Baton Rouge, LA.

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