Tommye Myrick is the Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum

Tommye Myrick is the Executive Director of the New Orleans African American Museum of Art, Culture, and History. The museum, damaged during Katrina, has re-opened in Treme, an early African-American faubourg. Tommye describes the museum and explains the "Code Noir" (Black Code) that was the law defining the conditions of slavery when the French governed New Orleans.