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Open Community Gallery (New Orleans Black Education History Week)

Name: Open Community Gallery (New Orleans Black Education History Week)
Start: 2026-11-16T18:00:00.000Z
End: 2026-11-20T23:00:00.000Z
Location: Merchant Hall — 1152 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130

Mon, Nov 16 · 12:00 p.m.CST

Merchant Hall — 1152 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 70130 · New Orleans

Merchant Hall, November 16–20, noon to 5 p.m. Walk through this city’s Black education history. Free, open to everyone. About this Event DESCRIPTION For one week, BE NOLA’s Black Is Brilliant Syllabu…

Open Community Gallery (New Orleans Black Education History Week)

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When

Mon, Nov 16 · 12:00 p.m.Ends 5:00 p.m.CST

Where

Merchant Hall — 1152 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 701301152 Magazine St., New Orleans, LA

Free

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Date and time: Mon, Nov 16 · 12:00 p.m.Ends 5:00 p.m.CST — local New Orleans time
Location: Merchant Hall — 1152 Magazine St, New Orleans, LA 701301152 Magazine St., New Orleans, LANew Orleans

About this event

Merchant Hall, November 16–20, noon to 5 p.m. Walk through this city’s Black education history. Free, open to everyone.

About this Event

DESCRIPTION

For one week, BE NOLA’s Black Is Brilliant Syllabus comes off the screen and becomes a room.

The Community Gallery at Merchant Hall is open to the public every afternoon during New Orleans Black Education History Week, Monday, November 16 through Friday, November 20, from noon to 5 p.m.

What’s inside

A timeline wall running the length of the space — archival photographs, the educators who taught here, the institutions that outlasted the odds against them. Then five stations, one for each pillar of Black Educational Brilliance: Belonging, High Expectations with Love, Exposure, Legacy, and Rigorous Sight. Each pairs the idea with the New Orleans schools, educator collectives, and organizations living it out, then and now. The pillars stop being abstractions and start having addresses.

There’s seating. Come for ten minutes on your lunch break or sta