sepi One of New Orleans’ most powerful and transformative tours is both self-guided and completely free. Tucked at the edge of the French Quarter and Tremé neighborhoods, Louis Armstrong Park holds within it a space that has carried the heartbeat of Black resistance and resilience for over three centuries: Congo Square. Shaded by ancient oaks,…
“Black history is Black horror.” — Tananarive Due, Horror Noire Documentary, 2019 People flock to New Orleans by the thousands, seeking to be titillated and terrified by stories of brutality endured during slavery. But the mood often shifts when those stories are placed in historical context — when the horrors become less ghost story and…
“Stay out the cemeteries and away from those voodoo priestesses,” my cautious aunt warned over the phone. My white Jetta was pulling onto the 10 freeway — a route I’d taken countless times in my life as a Southern Californian. But on this occasion, I wasn’t creeping toward the Pacific. I was cruising above, quite…