Music is a form of prayer in New Orleans and across the sea in Haiti. It connects the living and the dead, the present with the past. Every year, in February and March, people all over the western hemisphere gather together to sing, dance, parade, and celebrate Carnival. The most famous Carnival celebration in the United States is New Orleans’ Mardi Gras.
Read MoreThe historically Black neighborhood in South Beaumont known as Pear Orchard developed after 1901.
Read MoreSt. John Colony outside Lockhart began in the early 1870s, when a group of Black families, led by the Rev. John Henry Winn, relocated here from Webberville.
Read MoreRev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., giving a sermon titled ‘But if Not’ at the Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia in November, 1967
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