Tremé Bicentennial Panel: How a Neighborhood Shaped the World: Tremé in Global Perspective

This day of vigorous lectures, panels, and discussions will be hosted by Historian Freddi Evans, author of Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans. It will include scholars, activists, oral historians, and history makers, who will explore with the audience the social, political and economic impact the people and events of Tremé have had on our nation’s and humanity’s history, from the end of enslavement to the invention of jazz to the Civil Rights Movement to Hurricane Katrina and the flood of 2005.  Panelists and speakers will include Jerome Smith, Kalamu ya Salaam, and Gwendolyn Midlo Hall with Freddie Evans moderating.