“New Orleans, to me, is a gumbo of ingredients that haven’t yet come together but all the spices are there. It’s the oldest African community in Louisiana. (Right now), it’s the 300th anniversary of the first African who came here. So, we celebrate that. A brother made a decision that he was going to live in the Bayou. He made a conscious decision that he would rather live and die in the Bayou than be the property of anyone. And that’s the history of this community. It’s a faded history because it’s not the history that mainstream America wants to know. But it’s our history and many of us take pride in it”– MALIK RAHIM, civil rights activist and former Black Panther leader
Photography Phillip Youmans, Styling Raphael Hirsch
