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Tremé’s Homegrown Historian
Founder Al Jackson’s scholarship and personal history come together in Treme’s Petit Jazz Museum.
Celebrate Black History with HNOC
Elmwood Plantation Menu
This stylish menu from a restaurant in a former plantation home belies the site’s dark history of human enslavement.
In Search of Julien Hudson: Free Artist of Color in Pre–Civil War New Orleans
A special retrospective exhibition explores the second-earliest documented painter of African descent in the United States and the first known native Louisiana artist.
Murder Before Breakfast: The French Market Killing That Shook New Orleans
Coffee maven Rose Nicaud declared that “everybody takes coffee at my stand,” regardless of race. After a man was shot near her stand, she entered the roiling Reconstruction-era debate over the limits of integration.
HNOC to Host Two New Orleans Film Festival Screenings
Louisiana v. Voting Rights, Then and Now
With a Louisiana redistricting case on the Supreme Court’s 2025–26 docket, the Voting Rights Act is once again under scrutiny. It’s not the first time Louisiana has tested the boundaries of the franchise.
The Problem We All Live With: The Story of an Iconic Illustration
November 15, 2025
Screening: 11 a.m.
Panel Discussion: 12 p.m.