The Black School

10/05/2026

🎉📲 Tag your favorite news station, magazine, podcast, radio show, content creator, influential auntie, chronically online friend, etc. in the comments and let them know!

🗞️🎥✨ As we prepare to open the doors to The Black Schoolhouse on Saturday, October 10th (12:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT), our official Media Advisory is now available: 🔗 lnk.bio/theblackschool

⚠️ CRITICAL CEREMONY PROTOCOL:
Out of respect for traditional spiritual protocols, media and creators capturing the opening Land Blessing & Drumming ceremony (12:00 PM – 12:15 PM) are permitted to film VISUAL B-ROLL ONLY. AUDIO RECORDING IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED DURING THE LAND BLESSING. Full audio/broadcast permissions resume immediately at 12:15 PM for all remarks, the ribbon cutting, and performances.

🔗 Read the Media Advisory & RSVP to be a part of history: lnk.bio/theblackschool

Let’s celebrate what we have built together in the 7th Ward. 🌱🏫✊🏾🖤

10/05/2026

🎉 5 More Days! We will open with a Traditional Land Blessing & African Drumming by Cultural Elders Nana Sula & Baba Zohar🪘🖤 RSVP today for our 10/10 Grand Opening: www.theblack.school/opening

✨Nana Sula Janet Evans✨ is the founding Priestess of the Temple of Light - Ile' de Coin-Coin located in New Orleans. People come to the Temple from all walks of life for readings, healing and release ceremonies, fertility and grief work, family counseling, group circles, sacred song workshops and more.

✨Baba Zohar✨ is a New Orleans-born master percussionist, cultural educator, and stilt-dancing pioneer known for his deep dedication to community enrichment and traditional African drumming.

✨10 Years in the Making: The Black Schoolhouse Grand Opening 🏛️✨

Let's celebrate 10 years of radical art education, community design, and Black self-determination. 🖤

From mobile workshops in NYC to laying roots in New Orleans’ historic 7th Ward, we are officially opening the doors to The Black Schoolhouse!

Join us on October 10, 2026 from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT at 1660 N. Roman St. to celebrate 10 years of building intergenerational collective power, spatial sovereignty, and Black institution building.

🌿 Community Garden
📚 Liberation Library
🎨 Gallery & Makerspace
⚡ Youth Apprenticeships

🔗 RSVP today: www.theblack.school/opening
Lock in your entry for this historic milestone!

10/03/2026

🎉 7 More Days! Don't miss experiencing this stunning Nesby Phips mural in person (swipe for a preview!), curated by Lana Meyon, at our 10/10 Grand Opening. 🎨 RSVP today: www.theblack.school/opening

✨Nesby Phips is a New Orleans-born producer, emcee, songwriter, and visual artist raised in the historic Hollygrove neighborhood. A multidisciplinary creator, Phips' current focus spans community leadership and visual arts. He serves as the Creative Director for the New Orleans Art Department and remains an active voting member of the Grammys Recording Academy. As a visual artist and woodworker, he creates vivid murals, canvases, and installations inspired by the color and heritage of New Orleans. This work is highlighted by his "Beaucoup Power" public art initiative which deployed message driven billboards across New York and Louisiana. He also curates community wellness ecosystems, including the recurring community kickback and wellness event series Reset at Sunset.✨

✨10 Years in the Making: The Black Schoolhouse Grand Opening 🏛️✨

10 years of radical art education, community design, and Black self-determination. 🖤✨

From mobile workshops in NYC to laying roots in New Orleans’ historic 7th Ward, we are officially opening the doors to The Black Schoolhouse!

Join us on October 10, 2026 from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT at 1660 N. Roman St. to celebrate 10 years of building intergenerational collective power, spatial sovereignty, and Black institution building.

🌿 Community Garden
📚 Liberation Library
🎨 Gallery & Makerspace
⚡ Youth Apprenticeships

🔗 RSVP today: www.theblack.school/opening

Lock in your entry for this historic milestone!

10/01/2026

🎉 9 More Days! Don't miss ANTWIGADEE! at our 10/10 Grand Opening. 🎧🎵 RSVP today: www.theblack.school/opening

✨ANTWIGADEE!✨
Born and raised in New Orleans with a love to create excitement through the sense of sound inspires, attracts and reacts to the sounds of music.

As an arranger and musician, he uses the DJ controller as his instrument. A piece of equipment that is not usually deemed as a musical apparatus, ANTWIGADEE! merges the worlds of musicianship and performance into his performance style. As the GROOOVE!MASTER, he bonds with his crowds by dancing with them, entrancing them in his awe-inspiring transitions, and immersing them in music from various decades and genres.

His electrifying sets capture the pure sound of energy when everyone's moving in unison. He is truly the architect of sound and social experiences.

✨10 Years in the Making: The Black Schoolhouse Grand Opening 🏛️✨

10 years of radical art education, community design, and Black self-determination. 🖤✨

From mobile workshops in NYC to laying roots in New Orleans’ historic 7th Ward, we are officially opening the doors to The Black Schoolhouse!

Join us on October 10, 2026 from 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM CDT at 1660 N. Roman St. to celebrate 10 years of building intergenerational collective power, spatial sovereignty, and Black institution building.

🌿 Community Garden
📚 Liberation Library
🎨 Gallery & Makerspace
⚡ Youth Apprenticeships

🔗 RSVP today: www.theblack.school/opening

Lock in your entry for this historic milestone!

09/30/2026

In New Orleans, art, history, and community organizing are inseparable.

We are deeply grateful to announce that we received a 2025 Louisiana Culture Care Fund Grant.

This $10,000 grant helped sustain our cultural preservation work and youth workshops between March 2025 and March 2026. Investing in local humanities and Black-led cultural spaces ensures our stories, histories, and creative practices remain rooted right here in Louisiana.

Thank you the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities for standing with us as we build sustainable infrastructure for Black liberation!

Funding for the 2025 Louisiana Culture Care Fund Grant has been provided by the State of Louisiana and administered by the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.

📲 Become a monthly sustaining donor and RSVP for our 10/10 Grand Opening: lnk.bio/theblackschool

09/29/2026

Thank you, Verite News! 🖤🙏🏾 We appreciate the amplification and support on our road to 10/10. 🙏🏾

The Black Schoolhouse will bring youth arts programming to a neighborhood lacking community arts centers.

09/28/2026

For your ASMR pleasure 😌 Sanding and staining tables this past weekend. ✨The Black Schoolhouse Grand Opening & 10-Year Anniversary prep continues! ✨🙏🏾🖤 📲RSVP to be in that number: theblack.school/opening

Date: Saturday, October 10, 2026 | 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM

Location: 1660 N. Roman St, 7th Ward, New Orleans, LA