VIDEO: ASHE CULTURAL ARTS CENTER INTERVIEW | MAAFA CELEBRATION

Aug 7, 2017Darrell Williams, The Louisiana Weekly 2017, Tiana Hunt

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NEW ORLEANS—As the Crescent City nears its 300-year anniversary in 2018, one arts institution is preparing to honor not just the city’s past, but all the Africans who died during the Transatlantic Slave Trade.

Ashé Cultural Arts Center, a nearly 20-year-old arts-based institution located in New Orleans’ Central City area, is kicking off its celebration of the tricentennial with this year’s Maafa commemoration, “A Prelude to the Tri-centennial,” at Congo Square in Armstrong Park on July 1.

Maafa, a Kiswahili word meaning “great tragedy” or “horrific tragedy,” and a reference to the Middle Passage or Transatlantic Slave Trade, will pay tribute to the scores of African captives who were enslaved and brought to the Americas to be used as a labor force. African slaves arrived in Americas in 1719.

Tiana Hunt: Interviewer @TianaTaughtYa

Darrell Larome: Director & Editor @Darrell.Larome

Tiana Hunt

Fellow, The Louisiana Weekly

Tiana Hunt is a senior at Clark-Atlanta University who hails from Houston, Texas. This dynamic young journalist has studied abroad in Beijing, has experience as a news anchor, reporter and producer at CAU’s TV station and an on-air personality at the university’s radio station. She is the first in her family to go to college and determined to make her mark in television and journalism.

Darrell Williams

Fellow, The Louisiana Weekly

Darrel Williams is a junior at Morehouse College who stays active on campus and in the community. Williams is the President and Creative Director of the AUC Agency, which organizes campus events, the Events Coordinator with the Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity and the Event Coordinator for the local NAACP student chapter. Now, he’s ready to bring his management skills, leadership ability and creativity on the road to Discover the Unexpected.

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My Discover the Unexpected experience at the Louisiana Weekly newspaper was very influential to my life. I was fresh out of Clark Atlanta University and I was looking for an opportunity to produce current and cultural news stories. The Louisiana Weekly gave me the opportunity to write and report my own stories.

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