Metropolitan Breakfast Club

Austin’s music scene traces back to a formerly enslaved preacher — and that was just one of Wednesday’s revelations.

The Austin History Center Association team joined us at Metropolitan Breakfast Club to share stories hiding in plain sight across this city. Jennifer Chenoweth spotlighted the Rev. Jacob Fontaine — formerly enslaved, founder of the first Black newspaper west of the Mississippi — whose summer revivals laid the foundation for Austin’s music tradition.

The team also shared plans for a future Austin History Museum and a project to digitally reconstruct Austin’s historical building footprints year by year.

Next week: Stacy Blakeley of Builders Movement joins us. Learn more at mbcaustin.org/events

Austin's story didn't start with the tech boom. Adam Powell, executive director of the Austin History Center Association, has spent his career inside the systems that shape cities — as a union organizer, educator, state employee, and tech executive. Now he preserves the stories that define us. Join us Wednesday, Mar. 25.

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