HEAL Community Natchez is a community-guided social-lab initiative created by the organization IDEASxLab. Its goal is to advance economic benefit and health outcomes for the local Black community in Natchez, Mississippi. At a festival in 2017, the community came together with artists to learn cultural arts, including soap making, blues music, and the culinary arts. The event succeeded in helping the community celebrate future possibilities and increased social cohesion by amplifying equitable community well-being.
Photo by Josh Miller, courtesy of IDEASxLab.