LAFAYETTE, La.--Maison Creole de Freetown is the city’s only African American Museum focusing on Black History and resides in the heart of Freetown, Lafayette, Louisiana. In 2022, Erica Melancon-Fox founded Maison Freetown, managed by the True Friends Society. The historical organization defended and protected Creoles of Color and African Americans from the Knights of the […]

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PORTLAND, Ore. – As a small but mighty population, Black people in Portland archive and hold on to memories, places, and spaces. A Black Studies curriculum at Portland State University connects incarcerated students to unapologetic education. Surprisingly, Oregon became the only “free state” admitted into the Union with exclusionary laws against Black Free People of […]

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Within Louisiana, the River Parishes (between New Orleans and Baton Rouge) consist of St. James Parish, St. Charles Parish, and St. John the Baptist Parish. Environmental justice organizations like Rise St. James Louisiana, Concerned Citizens of St. John, and the Descendants Project are speaking out and organizing against injustices in “Cancer Alley.” Residents who live close […]

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Motherhood is beautiful and every mother deserves to be one happy mama. Yet, young Black mothers in the South face many challenges including potential health issues, limited economic opportunities, low community support, and intimate partner violence.  Unfortunately, poverty, housing insecurity, or lack of access to supportive services can increase the chances of intimate partner violence. […]

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Unconditional self-love and the courage to embrace authenticity are commendable, especially in a world with judgment and systemic barriers.  TIME100 award-winning non-binary author, activist, and journalist, George M. Johnson, explores early-20th-century Blackness and Queerness in “Flamboyants: The Queer Harlem Renaissance I Wish I’d Known.”  As the author of the New York Times bestseller memoir-manifesto, “All […]

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