NEW ORLEANS — Beloved Community and the Leona Tate Foundation for Change (LTFC) are partnering to host a NOLAGivesDay Crawfish Boil, celebrating New Orleans’ rich culture while promoting their shared mission of advancing racial and economic equity.
Date: Tuesday, May 2nd, 2023
Time: 12 pm-4 pm CST
Location: The TEP Center, 5909 St. Claude Ave.
The TEP Center, an essential part of the New Orleans community, is named after Civil Rights icons Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost, who courageously integrated the city’s public school system as first graders. Beloved Community’s new home is within the TEP Center, sharing the physical space with exhibitions dedicated to the history of New Orleans public school desegregation, civil rights, and restorative justice.
Beloved Community, founded by Rhonda Broussard, is dedicated to creating sustainable paths to regional racial and economic equity. Broussard’s vision is informed by her leadership in education and Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s aspiration “to create a beloved community” that would necessitate “a qualitative change in our souls as well as a quantitative change in our lives.”
A crawfish boil is a quintessential New Orleans event, symbolizing the spirit of community and togetherness. By organizing this gathering, Beloved Community and the LTFC aim to foster connections and celebrate the progress made toward racial and economic equity, while acknowledging the work that remains to be done.
“We are thrilled to partner with the Leona Tate Foundation for Change and the Tate, Etienne, and Provost (TEP) Center for this event,” said Rhonda Broussard, founder of Beloved Community. “We’ve been so fortunate to spend the last six years working with organizations in New Orleans to advance racial and economic equity. It’s an honor to collaborate with an organization whose mission aligns so closely to our own.”
Those who are planning to attend are asked to RSVP. If you are unable to attend, please consider making a contribution to the GiveNOLA Day fundraiser here. Donations help Beloved Community reach more people and organizations, as they continue their vital work in promoting equity and justice.
In addition, every dollar donated from 12:01 am to midnight on GiveNOLA.org will be stretched with additional “lagniappe” dollars provided by the Greater New Orleans Foundation and generous GiveNOLA Day sponsors.
For more information about the event, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/givenola-day-community-crawfish-boil-tickets-617271986127
About Beloved Community
Beloved Community is a leading nonprofit racial and economic equity consulting firm that supports organizations in intentionally centering equity to develop realistic, data-driven, and measurable plans to implement structural change in our nation’s businesses, schools, and homes. Inspired by Dr. King’s vision of a beloved community “in which all people can share in the wealth of the earth – a world where racism and all forms of discrimination, bigotry, and prejudice will be replaced by an all-inclusive spirit of sisterhood and brotherhood,” Beloved Community offers hands-on and online training, capacity-building cohorts and custom coaching, online data tools and assessments, and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.
About the Leona Tate Foundation for Change
The Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc., was born on the principle that in order to achieve harmony among humankind, every person should be afforded comparable opportunities and exposures. The Leona Tate Foundation for Change is dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the story of the Civil Rights struggle for equal education in New Orleans, by sharing the story of the three African-American girls who integrated McDonogh #19 Elementary School in 1960. The Leona Tate Foundation for Change seeks to reach people of all ages and ethnicities, with a special emphasis on educating young people about these struggles.
About the Tate, Etienne, and Prevost (TEP) Center
The Tate, Etienne, and Prevost (TEP) Center is a renovated mixed-use facility housed in what used to be the historic McDonogh #19 Elementary School in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Once central to the New Orleans school desegregation crisis of the 1960s, the abandoned school was purchased in 2020 by the Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc. The Tate Etienne & Prevost Center features education and exhibition space dedicated to the history of New Orleans public school desegregation, civil rights, and restorative justice. The second and third floors of the historic building house affordable residential units for seniors, as well as TEP partners; Beloved Community and People’s Institute for Survival & Beyond’s (PISAB) headquarters.
Media Contact:
Shante Little
Assoc. Dir. Communications
shante@wearebeloved.org
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