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Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans, is a 2008 documentary film directed by Dawn Logsdon and written by Lolis Eric Elie. Featuring a cast of local musicians, artists and writers, the film relates the history of New Orleans ' Tremé neighborhood.
Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans: Directed by Dawn Logsdon. With Glen David Andrews, Harold Evans, Eric Foner, John Hope Franklin. Faubourg Treme documents the enduring legacy of one of the United States' oldest African American communities, an area just outside the French Quarter of New Orleans.
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- Documentary
- Dawn Logsdon
- 2008-04
Rated 5/5 Stars • 02/24/23. The movie takes a huge topic - Black New Orleans - and comes at it from a bunch of angles. The arts, social and political history, and a personal narrative. It's all ...
- (5)
- Lolis Eric Elie
- Dawn Logsdon
Past and present collide in this powerful documentary about Faubourg Treme, the fabled New Orleans' neighborhood that gave birth to jazz, launched America's first black daily newspaper, and nurtured generations of African American activists. Don't miss the true story of the neighborhood that inspired David Simon's fictional HBO television series
Long ago during slavery, Faubourg Tremé was home to the largest community of free black people in the Deep South and a hotbed of political ferment. Here black and white, free and enslaved, rich and poor co-habitated, collaborated, and clashed to create much of what defines New Orleans culture up to the present day. Founded as a suburb (or faubourg in French) of the original colonial city, the ...
Drawing on several years of pre-Hurricane Katrina footage, the film brings alive the history of Black New Orleans through an in-depth look at one historic neighborhood, the Faubourg Tremé. Executive produced by Wynton Marsalis and Stanley Nelson, the film follows journalist and first-time filmmaker Lolis Eric Elie, who sets out to renovate his 19th-century house in this now deteriorating ...
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A brilliant exploration of a rich and complex slice of the African-American experience, Faubourg Tremé, opens with slowly panned shots of rubble strewn streets and derelict buildings. It is, according to the narrator and co-producer journalist Lolis Eric Elie, “the New Orleans tourists rarely saw,” probably the oldest black neighborhood in America; the neighborhood that in the late ...
