Agatha Babineaux was living at a cottage behind Blessed Sacrament Church in the Charlton-Pollard neighborhood in December 1937 when researchers with the government’s Work Projects Administration ...
When Dionne Babineaux began combing through the “Slave Narratives” compiled in the late 1930s by the Work Projects Administration, formerly known as the Works Progress Administration, she had no idea ...
The power of storytelling has always been at the heart of Black resistance. Long before social media activism and viral videos exposed injustice, enslaved Black Americans wielded their narratives as ...