SFIFF: Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans

~ Lincoln Spector

I just caught Faubourg Tremé: The Untold Story of Black New Orleans. It’s a basic, PBS-style documentary without anything truly creative or exciting technically or artistically. But the subject matter–an integrated New Orleans neighborhood which might have been the largest community of free Blacks in the pre-Civil War south. It follows the neighborhood through it’s initial days as a light of racial equality (or near-equality) at a time of slavery through war, reconstruction, Jim Crow, the civil rights movement, and the devastation of crack cocaine until the neighborhood’s destruction by Hurricane Katrina.

You can still catch it Wednesday at 9:00 at the Kabuki.

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Lincoln Spector writes about cinema, technology, and cinema technology. From 1986 through 2008, he wrote Gigglebytes, the first technology-oriented humor column. From 1977 through 2016, he wrote PC World's Answer Line column and blog.