On Monday, August 24, 2015, we unveiled our third historic plaque, this time in the Lower Ninth Ward neighborhood of New Orleans.
Guests Pastor Brandon Haynes, Fairview Baptist Church, Pastor Charles Duplessis, Mount Nebo Bible Baptist Church, Rev Willie Calhoun, Lower Ninth Ward Coalition, Robert Green, lifelong Lower Ninth Ward resident, Ms. Kim Ford, Lower 9th Ward Advocate, Happy Johnson, educator and author and Burnell Cotlon, veteran.
Artists included Chuck Perkins, poet and talk show host, Bishop Jones and Justified Choir, Al “Carnival Time” Johnson Brandon Conerly who sang “Lift Every Voice and Sing”and the Troop Brass Band which led a second line when the event concluded.