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Community Gathers as Ribbon is Cut on The Tate Etienne Prevost Center

Photo: On May 4, 2022 the Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc. and development partner Alembic Community Development celebrated the...

“New Orleans Four” on Sunday Today

Leona Tate, Gail Etienne, and Tessie Prevost sit down withNBC’s Rehema Ellis to share their experience Desegregating Schools in New Orleans.

Holding onto History: Leona Tate creates New Orleans' first civil rights museum

Education has always been at the heart of Leona Tate’s life. Born in 1954 in the Lower 9th Ward, Tate took the first steps toward finally...

As a 6-year-old, Leona Tate helped desegregate schools. Now she wants others to learn that history

By Katy Reckdahl NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped...