#congo square

[bolaneno]

I brought my baby to the Congo Square Festival today☀️! It was wonderful. This was her first festival ever and she said she loved it lol. She really enjoyed the Mardi Gras Indians and danced so much to their songs.

We also left flowers at the Congo Square marker as an offering to the ancestors that used to congregate there on Sundays🌹.

[yearningforunity]

"Congo Square". Congo Square drum circle. New Orleans, 2016.

Photo: David Joshua Jennings,

[kemetic-dreams]

Other Kongo influences at Congo Square were documented by folklorist Puckett.

African Americans poured libations at the four corners of Congo Square at midnight during a dark moon for a Hoodoo ritual.

[jt1674]

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[rjeldridge]

Congo Square, 2022

[babythegod]

I literally screamed when I saw this pole , like OMG !!!! ♥️ I have been communing here for over 10 years &I always shoutout Pac while I’m there. The universe is listening &speaking loudly !!! ✨

[goodblacknews]

Welcome to Jazz Appreciation Month 2022 (LISTEN)

Welcome to Jazz Appreciation Month 2022 (LISTEN)

by Lori Lakin Hutcherson (@lakinhutcherson) No fooling, in the U.S. April 1st denotes the start of Jazz Appreciation Month (aka “JAM”), where the art form born out of Congo Square in New Orleans became a unique and true African American and American musical expression that continues to evolve across the decades and centuries. Started by the Smithsonian Museum of American History in 2001, “JAM is…

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[yeoldebleatinggoat]

Louis Armstrong Park / Congo Square

New Orleans, LA