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JT's avatar

Hi! Thank you for your article. Can I ask where you sourced the first image? I've tried to reverse search the image and can't find it anywhere but it's beautiful.

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Diamond-Michael Scott's avatar

Interestingly enough, it’s an AI pencil sketch image produced using the app Photoroom

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The Black Woman Essayist's avatar

This is one location I would love to visit New Orleans. "Congo Square" sounds like a great name, I assume in reference to the French speaking location in central Africa, where many were shipped from to America and especially the Caribbean islands in the slave trade. Great read!

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David Perlmutter's avatar

In New Orleans, European and African musical styles had a head-on collision in the 19th and 20th centuries which would eventually birth jazz, blues, R&B and funk on a grateful world.

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