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Sweet Home New Orleans Opens Office at the New Orleans Healing Center

On Sunday December 18th, Sweet Home New Orleans celebrated its move to a new home in the New Orleans Healing Center. Led by the Tremé Brass Band, Sweet Home New Orleans staffers, board members, and supporters Second Lined from the old office on Elysian Fields, down St. Claude Avenue and through the New Orleans Healing Center front doors for the official ribbon cutting and reception in their new office.

Sweet Home New Orleans has had three homes since its founding in 2005; from a crowded two-room office in Tremé, to borrowed space from NOCCA and the Antenna Gallery, helping clients along the way to rebuild their roofs while their own was falling down! According to Sweet Home New Orleans Executive Director, Sue Mobley, musicians, Mardi Gras Indians, Social Aid and Pleasure Club members, and others have responded to this move in the same way, “That’s perfect, that’s where y’all should have been all along!”

Sweet Home New Orleans’ mission is to support the individuals and organizations that perpetuate New Orleans’ unique musical and cultural traditions. Merging with Renew Our Music Fund in 2008 to create a one-stop service center for New Orleans’ music and cultural community, Sweet Home New Orleans supports the revitalization and sustainability of New Orleans music and the cultural community through individual case management, counseling, legal assistance, advocacy, and music business education.

Welcome Sweet Home New Orleans!

Happy Birthday, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

January marks the celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s birthday. Dr. King, known the world over as a civil rights icon, who advocated non-violent protest, had a special relationship with the city of New Orleans.

In a recent interview with the New Orleans Healing Center, Charlie Johnson, special curator for the New Orleans African American Museum’s 14th annual exhibition celebrating Dr. King’s legacy observed that Dr. King would come to the city to meet with ministers and leaders here, people like Reverend A.L. Davis, and others. It was here that he was asked to assume leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Mr. Johnson went on to explain that the history of New Orleans made it different than a lot of other cities in the U.S. at the time. “There was always a climate of militancy in New Orleans,” he said. “Groups of individuals, particularly a lot of the free people of color, fought against injustice because they weren’t about to accept being treated as less than equal.”

Dr. Nikki Brown, a history professor at the University of New Orleans, spoke to the other side of that equation. “There was certainly an element in the hierarchy in New Orleans at that time that resisted any change to race relations and felt that African Americans were being treated well.” Dr. King fought against that power structure all through his civil rights career but Dr. Brown points out that it’s important to consider Dr. King, not as a static icon but rather as someone who evolved during the course of the Civil Rights Movement itself. “In the early 60s, Dr. King faced pressure from other elements of the Movement that were skeptical about his non-violence principles,” Dr. Brown explained. “And ultimately he was just as influenced by his opponents as he was by the people who supported him.”

The New Orleans Healing Center commemorates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. this weekend with a series of videos documenting his life that will be shown at Café Istanbul starting at 2:00pm, Saturday, January 14, prior to the Saints vs. 49ers game.

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Affordable Healing Arts by Debra Howard

When I met Sallie Ann Glassman, neither knew what would eventually come of that meeting… we had a nice, long chat about the healing center vision and mission, including the fact that the healing arts center needed a leader and didn’t I want to do that???

I have been in the Asian Bodywork Therapy profession for nearly 20 years and have actively participated in the growth and development of that profession in the US. I am an author, practitioner, instructor, and promoter who likes to live & work with a good sense of humor and a wide perspective. I am a licensed massage therapist, an AOBTA®-Certified Instructor, and a Diplomate in Asian Bodywork Therapy (NCCAOM). (more…)

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Louisiana SPCA

The Healing Center is excited to welcome the Louisiana Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (LA/SPCA) to our family. The SPCA has opened an offsite adoption location in the Healing Center by the side entrance to the building. Every Saturday from 11AM – 2PM, all are invited to come by and find new best friends to adopt and bring home! An SPCA adoption team will be on hand to help you select the right pet for you and your family. (more…)

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