Movies with a mission—“Faubourg Treme’: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”
“Faubourg Treme’: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans”
This film was largely shot before the Hurricane Katrina tragedy, but edited afterward giving the film both a celebratory and elegiac tone. Louisiana Poet Laureate Brenda Marie Osbey and noted historians John Hope Franklin and Eric Foner explain what made Treme different, such a fertile ground for African American life and the fact that New Orleans had the largest number of free people of color in the south, a dangerous anomaly in a slave society.
MOVIES WITH A MISSION
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