TEP Center

The TEP (Tate, Etienne, and Prevost) Center is a renovated mixed-use facility housed in what used to be the historic McDonogh 19 Elementary School in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Once central to the New Orleans school desegregation crisis of the 1960s, the abandoned school was purchased in 2020 by the Leona Tate Foundation for Change, Inc. (LTFC)-Alembix development partnership.

The new mixed-use facility will become a safe space built on anti-racist principles. It will feature education & exhibition space dedicated to the history of desegregation in New Orleans Public Schools, Civil Rights, and restorative justice. The second and third floors of the historic building will house 25 deeply affordable residential units for seniors 55 and older, and TEP partners PISAB (People's Institute for Survival & Beyond) will relocate their headquarters to the facility to conduct their signature Undoing Racism ® workshops.

For more information on the McDonogh 19 Project progress, TEP Center events, membership and ways to donate, visit their site at https://www.tepcenter.org/ .