The History of Juneteenth in New Orleans

Wow!! It has been such a busy and wonderful return back since COVID but I am back and it is time to blog once again what better way to start back than with a post about Juneteenth. Know NOLA Tours has been busy bringing the best tour experiences in New Orleans while serving the community but a few weeks ago was interviewed about Juneteenth in New Orleans. Please read the article at the link that features our founder and owner of Know NOLA Tours Malik Bartholomew among others who is helping and supporting the development of Juneteenth Celebrations in the New Orleans area.

Juneteenth

Join Know NOLA Tours Owner at Conversations, Culture & Calas at New Orleans African American Museum Tuesday November 30th

The New Orleans African American Museum in Treme is excited to bring back their Conversations, Culture & Calas program back and are inviting all of their neighbors back in the Tremé area and in New Orleans to get to know the museum by joining us for our monthly conversation series, where we serve calas, an old New Orleans tradition, uniquely prepared by a local chef.

This month series we’ll be hosting a conversation between Al Jackson of Treme’s Jazz Petit Museum and KnowNolaTour’s Malik Bartholomew. Food and calas will be served by the Chef-in-Residence Indigo Martin of Indigo Soul Cuisine.

Calas is a breakfast fritter mixed with cooked rice, flour, sugar, and spices, and then deep-fried. The word Calas was first printed in 1880, and is derived from African languages, such as the Nupe word kárá, or “fried cake.” African American street vendors sold fresh hot calas in the city’s French Quarter, with the familiar cry, “Calas, belles, calas tout chauds!”

6 PM  EVENT + LIVESTREAM BEGIN       

6:05 PM  CALAS WITH CHEF INDIGO        

7:30 PM  CONVERSATION BETWEEN AL JACKSON & MALIK BARTHOLOMEW 

The speakers are:

AL JACKSON

Al Jackson grew up in the Treme neighborhood of New Orleans, and has made it his life’s work to study New Orleans’ musical history. After working on many other projects all over the world (six years in the U.S. Air Force, data analysis to help create the Saturn IB rocket, and time in the New Orleans city government), Al turned his attention to achieving his long-time dream: opening a museum dedicated to the history of 4,000 years of People, Culture, Conflicts, Music and Musical Instruments that created the sound of Jazz in New Orleans. As America’s oldest integrated neighborhood, Treme has always been an important center of African-American and Creole culture; New Orleans’ beating heart for brass bands, Mardi Gras Indians, and of course, the jazz that is the life blood pulsing through the city.

Malik Bartholomew

Malik Bartholomew is a native African Orleanian who serves his hometown as a historian, photographer, researcher, tour guide, master story teller, radio co-host, community griot & cultural curator. He has studied history his entire life and is a proud graduate of Dillard University where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in History. Post-graduation he has since spent countless of hours in the various archives in the city exploring and learning more about the unique traditions and history of the city of New Orleans. Malik has an undying passion for all things “New Orleans” and remains committed too exploring, researching, learning and most importantly sharing the unique history, rich culture and distinctive qualities of the city of New Orleans.

The Chief in Residence is Indgo Martin of Indigo Soul Cuisine

CHEF-IN-RESIDENCE

Indigo Soul Cuisine

The Soul Cuisine offers plant based pleasures cultivated and created to feed the soul. Inspired by Indian, Asian, African, Latin American, & Middle Eastern cuisines. Being delivered with a modern day and Creole touch to be completed with nourishment within the mind and full vitality within the body. Combining art & science bringing euphoria to every dish and letting food be thy medicine.

Conversations, Culture and Callas is presented in part by The Helis Foundation

All visitors, regardless of vaccination status, are required to wear masks while visiting The New Orleans African American Museum. NOAAM reserves the right to limit the number of visitors based on social distancing practices.

The Hero of New Orleans Robert Charles

On this day on July 27, 1900, Mr. Robert Charles was brutally murdered by a white mob in New Orleans however his acts of courage were always remembered and lifted up in the black community in our city. Do you know his story? Do you know what happened to who Ida B. Wells called “The Hero of New Orleans.” Today is the 120th anniversary of the courage and murder of Robert Charles.

2020 Juneteenth Activities in New Orleans

2020 Juneteenth Activities in New Orleans

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The Know NOLA Show with Guest Kevin “2 Cent” Griffin-Clark this Thursday at 3pm

The Know NOLA Show hosted by Know NOLA Tours is rolling strong with our 5th episode this week with guest Mr. Kevin “2 Cent” Griffin – Clark.

BIH AINT THERE NO MO: A Panel Discussion on the removal of the John Mc Donogh Statue this Tuesday at Noon

This weekend a historic event took place in New Orleans! The statue of slave-owning John Mc Donogh was removed from a city square and thrown into the river.

DU Student Sherick Boone Interviews Know NOLA Tours for Dillard University Student Newspaper

It is always a pleasure when someone takes an interest in what you do. At the start of the year, I was contacted by Dillard University student Sherick Boone about documenting myself and Know NOLA Tours.

Check Out The Know NOLA Show

New Orleans are you ready? Malik Bartholomew of Know NOLA Tours has launched The Know NOLA Show. The Know NOLA Show will tell you everything you need to know in the 504. This hourly show will bing you laughs, interviews, information, culture and the real New Orleans with every episode.