A Great Day in Black is being designed to spotlight African Americans on the bench and to educate the public about the judicial system's influence on the civic, economic and cultural environment of our community. The project's signature component is a photographic exhibit featuring a group portrait of more than 40 contemporary New Orleans jurists along with individual photographic portraits of each justice/judge, video interviews, interpretive text panels and personal artifacts documenting their paths to the bench. The exhibit will also feature a memorial section on New Orleans' pioneering African-American jurists including such trailblazers as the late Ernest N. Morial, Israel Augustine, Okla Jones, Nils Douglas, and Lionel Collins.