Congo Square 1817

22/09/2023

Please get to know the faces and the names of the people who represent you and your districts in Congress!!! These are the people charged with fighting for justice and equity on your behalf, they are your voice…. They SERVE YOU!!! 👏🏾✊🏾

10/09/2023

Setting the record straight! A fun historical fact about Nashville we all should know!

Did you know the world renowned Fisk Jubilee Singers put Nashville on the musical map long before the city became famous for its honky-tonks and slide guitars?

The original Fisk Jubilee Singers introduced ‘slave songs’ to the world in 1871 and were instrumental in preserving this unique American musical tradition known today as Negro spirituals.

RIP to Dr. Paul T. Kwami, the long-time music director since 1994, who passed away last month. He was 70. 🙏🏾💙💛

09/09/2023

A Black American Author that all should know about and read her work..

Zora Neale Hurston (January 7, 1891 – January 28, 1960) was an American folklorist, anthropologist, and author during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Of Hurston's four novels and more than 50 published short stories, plays, and essays, she is best known for her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God.

09/09/2023

Here’s a collaboration that we love!!!

20/08/2023

Wonderful!

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17/08/2023

Good Morning!

We’re super excited to announce that we’re doing a Back 2 School Bookbag Drive from now until the end of August! With all of the efforts that we’re seeing in Florida and other places around the country, to whitewash or erase the history and experiences of African Americans, or totally exclude educational programming that centers African American culture and contributions, we thought that this was a great opportunity to reinforce our history and community with grade school students by sharing the history of Congo Square in a wearable and shareable way as a branded bookbag that will hopefully spark intrigue and conversation. Most of the bookbags are slated to benefit a local charter school and some bookbags will be made available to individual teachers for them to gift to students in need or of their choosing. We’ve already started receiving money from sponsors! Please consider sponsoring a bookbag or more for this great cause if you can, we’d love to have your support! See flier for more info.

14/08/2023

Rest in Power sir! Mr. Avant was 1 of 1, we are grateful for his contributions to the culture and beyond..

He managed Sarah Vaughan, discovered Bill Withers and advised countless people in the industry and beyond: "He’s been the silent architect of so many deals, it would make your head spin."

12/08/2023

Political Activist Sunsara Taylor speaking Truth to Power! ✊🏾

In her “Woke” Lunacy vs Real Revolution Speech at UCLA back in May of 2023, she so eloquently and succinctly lays out how the “system” is and has always been designed with racism at it’s core against black people. Moments like this are needed for clarity so that we can learn the history and understand how best to prevent the same from repeating or reinventing itself.

02/08/2023

MC Hammer had a really big moment, he’s solidified in the history books! We make culture, we are culture!

27/07/2023

Hello everyone! How’s everyone’s summer going? Gearing up for a Back To School Book Bag drive for the kids, more info to come.. we have to fight back against the whitewashing and rewriting of Black and American history that evil forces are currently engaged in…. What better way than to arm our children with real history, history that empowers them, history that they can be proud of and share! The story of Congo Square is perfect! With it being printed on backpacks, it becomes a wearable and shareable conversation piece! Anyone can support by sponsoring a backpack for a student for $25.. inbox for more info if interested…. Thx in advance!

27/04/2023

RIP Harry Belafonte! ✊🏾🤎

26/04/2023

Rest in Power to Mr. Belafonte! What a life well lived in service to humanity!

Greatness!

Harry Belafonte, Laurence Fishburne, Cicely Tyson and Sidney Poitier in 2012.