Sneak Peek: Zella Palmer Podcast

Zella Palmer: During segregation, during the Jim Crow era, HBCUs were safe spaces where you can dress up and dine on some of the finest Creole cuisine that the city had to offer because we weren't allowed to eat in white establishments or white restaurants. We weren't allowed to even sometimes go past Canal Street without a pass or having proof that you work uptown New Orleans. So to have functions at Dillard University or to have functions in African-Americans' family homes, they created these kind of restaurant spaces