Praise House Project

Recalling freedom, The Praise House Project invites communities to examine history honestly while encouraging historic and cultural preservation as acts of repair within the context of race, diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Image by Williams Feagins Jr.

THE PRAISE HOUSE PROJECT 501c3

Praise House Project Inc is a nonprofit organization which celebrates and preserves Black narratives, by producing and presenting community-based programming in the arts and humanities which uplift and preserve African American histories in communities.

Image by Julie Yarbrough

“My great-grandmother's name was Ora Lee Fuqua. She was born on a sharecropping plantation in Central City, Kentucky. We were owned by the Fuqua family, a prominent white family in the South and beyond. My work retraces her story by recalling the Ring Shout.“

Charmaine Minniefield

Our Community Engagement Practices

• Centers truth-telling as cultural and historic preservation

• Empowers youth through intergenerational knowledge sharing

• Promotes social justice and community development through cross-sector collaboration

• Encourages repair as reinvestment in communities harmed by historic acts of erasure

• Fosters mental health and wellness by preserving indigenous traditions of faith and community

• Advances diversity, equity, and inclusion by creating safe space to center community legacy, rather than erasing it, to envision freedom today