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

Published: Nov. 19, 2006, 2:59 p.m.

b'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.'