March 2022 Highlights

In this issue: Amistad Chosen as Repository for the Black Dance Stories Collection...Mark your calendars for GiveNOLA Day 2022: May 3rd...the Center welcomed artist and filmmaker Helen Cammock to New Orleans in January as the first Amistad-Rivers Research Artist-in-Residence...Amistad was a proud media sponsor for Fly, a play directed by Tommye Myrick, celebrating Black History in the community...Amistad selected as one of 200 libraries nationwide for the American Library Association’s (ALA) American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Libraries ...along with several Staff News updates like Amistad's new Fine Arts Department staff members Paula Allen, Curator of Fine Art and African Collections, and Kim Coleman, Registar.