Thursday, February 22, 2018

Dr. Kingsley B. Garrison Donating His Rich Collection to the Center for Southeast Louisiana Studies

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Dr. Kingsley B. Garrison Photo Credit:  Dr. Antoinette Harrell F or the past several months I have had the honorable pleasure to inter...
Monday, February 12, 2018

Proclamation Proclaim Genealogy Awareness Week

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 Genealogy Proclamation F ebruary 5, 2004, the African American Genealogy Connection, Inc., requested that the City of New Orleans Proc...

What Could the Tombstones Tell Us?

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Thomas Richardson Photo Credit: Bobby I f you look at Thomas Richardson, Sr., headstone and the headstone of Andrew Richardson, you ...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

The Unknown Children in the Photograph

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Photo Courtesy Audrey Harrell Dumones Robert Harrell was born a slave in 1821 in Amite County, Mississippi. He also lived in East Feli...

Are There Any Relations Between Thomas and Alonzo Richardson?

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Andrew Richardson Photo Credit: Jane Holiday M y maternal grandmother's father was named Thomas Richardson born abt 1884 in Ward 3...
Saturday, February 10, 2018

Colors of Tangipahoa Project

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Thursday, February 1, 2018

American Jazz Legend Born in the Village of Tangipahoa

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Willie Cook Gugge Hedrenius Big Blues Band I received a phone called from Howard E. Magee concerning prominent African Americans who we...

Color of Tangipahoa Project " We Want to Hear Your Story"

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H elp Us Honor Black History Month! Please help me to continue to document our history, legacy, triumphs, and your family history this ...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

Celebrating the Life of Sister Hilda "Zemora" Vining

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Hilda Zemora Vining H ilda "Zemora" Vining, passed away peacefully at her home on Saturday, July 8, 2017. She was born on Dec...

A Vessel of Honor in Memory of Elder Nathaniel Richardson, Sr.

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Elder Nathaniel Richardson, Sr.  N athaniel Richardson, Sr., was born to the parents of Thomas Alexander Richardson and Melissa Wheat o...
Friday, December 1, 2017

Aunt Rosa Made New Orleans Her Home

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Rosabell Richardson Moore A unt Rosa was one of my grandmother Josephine's sisters. I remember visiting her in New Orleans on Ursul...
Sunday, November 26, 2017

Musicians and Performers in the Harrell Family

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Johnie Darby Photo Courtesy: Johnie Darby facebook page M y Harrell family are blessed with so many talents. Two family members that co...

Their ties to the Land and Agriculture is in their DNA

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Field Day Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell M y maternal grandfather comes from a long line of farmers in the East Flordia Parishes, Lou...
Saturday, November 25, 2017

Women Farmers, Cattle Women and Honey Beekeepers

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Shirley look at her okra Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell L ast weekend,  I saw Larry Freeman at the field day event that was held on S...
Friday, November 24, 2017

African American Cattlemen and Farmers on Stateline Road

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Ruthie Coleman and son Craig Coleman Photo Credit: Antoinette Harrell T wo weeks ago I was visiting Ruthie Coleman with VICE documenta...
Thursday, November 23, 2017

The Obituary of Johnnie Lawrence Harrell

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Johnnie Lawrence J ohnnie Lawrence Harrell was born to the late Shelton and late Ada Nolan Harrell on April 1, 1913 in Amite, Louisiana...
Sunday, November 5, 2017

Unidentified Photographs of African-American People in Lanier-Fajoni Collection

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There a couple dozen unamed photographs of African-American people in the Lanier Fajoni Collection. His collection is at the Center for Sou...

Choctaw Indians Were the First in Tangipahoa Parish

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A Choctaw baby peeks out of a handwoven Choctaw rivercane pack basket at Lacombe, LA. The picture was taken in 1909, appeared in David Bus...
Wednesday, November 1, 2017

The Unnamed Slave in the City of Hammond Name Was Gaston

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The Unnamed Slave Gravesite L ast year while researching African American history in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana., I came across an ar...