NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — WGNO is privileged to celebrate Black history and culture with our 2024 special, “Honoring Black History: Sharing Our Stories from Havana, Cuba.”
Join LBJ and Christopher Leach as they take you along with them and follow the remarkably talented young musicians of the Trombone Shorty Foundation. For several years, the Trombone Shorty Foundation in New Orleans has traveled to Havana to play music with Guillermo Tomas Conservatory. This partnership began in 2018 by way of the “Getting Funky in Havana” Cultural Exchange trip, with Afro-Cuban rockstar Cimafunk and Cuba Educational Travel.
For this full televised program, we give space to topics such history as music history, Ethiopian honey wine, Haitian artwork, St. Lucian food, Cuban rhythm, the story of America’s Buffalo Soldiers, New Orleans’ Blue Heat Dance Group, the need for more Black educators in the United States, how pralines are connected with African American women, the Descendants Project, Xavier University’s historic football team, the renown Chimpanzee Haven and the Black woman veterinarian behind it, the renaming of an army base to a World War I hero and the brilliance of the musicians of the Trombone Shorty Academy.
This is WGNO’s Black History Month tribute.
Watch it on WGNO-TV at 10:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 24 and on WNOL/NOLA38 at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 25.
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