Andy Morgan, Esq., Founder

Black Art, Culture, and Education, Inc. (BACE), formerly known as African American Culture and Arts Festival, Inc. (AACAF), was founded by Andy Morgan in the summer of 2020 with the goal of providing inspiration and positivity to our community during a period when the African American community at large was experiencing tremendous turmoil, anger and despair.  

Although 2020 was a difficult year for our nation, with the devastation caused by the pandemic, it was particularly difficult for the African American community.  As a community, we witnessed video broadcasts of the murder of young men and women at the hands of law enforcement (as in the case of George Floyd or Breonna Taylor) and civilian white men acting with the privileged belief that they have the right to take the law into their own hands (in the case of Ahmaud Arbery).  These events were vivid reminders of the historic racist attitudes that continue to pervade American culture and the outward expression by the dominant culture that black lives can be snuffed out without regard because they have no value.  

Andy is the principal and founding attorney of The Morgan Law Group, PC, which is a law firm based in Lawrenceville, Georgia that provides business law, real estate and trust and estate advice and representation.  

Andy has practiced business law for over 25 years.  He is a member of the Georgia and New York State Bars.  He began his law career as an associate at a prominent New York based law firm where he practiced in the areas of initial public offerings, mergers and acquisitions, proxy fights, private placements and joint ventures.  He then served as general counsel to a privately owned oil company, where he was a member of the executive team that ultimately arranged the sale of the business to a major US oil company.  

Andy has served as an arbitrator for the Better Business Bureau in New York City and as an arbitrator for the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), which is a federal agency that regulates broker dealer activities.  Andy also served for over eight years in the military as a soldier in the ordinance branch of the United States Army Reserve.

Andy is also actively engaged in the community, having served on the Board of Gwinnett County Habitat for Humanity, on the Board of the Gwinnet Chamber of Commerce, as an Area Manager for the Gwinnett County Board of Elections, as a Volunteer Attorney on occasion for the Gwinnett Legal Aid Society, and as a youth soccer coach.

Andy received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union School of Engineering in New York and a law degree from The New York University School of Law.  He is also a graduate of the Empire State Military Academy and Leadership Gwinnett.

Tarece Johnson-Morgan, EdD, Vice President of Arts, Culture, and Education

Dr. Tarece Johnson-Morgan is originally from Houston, Texas. As a young child she always dreamed of being an artist (actress, model, singer, dancer, and writer). Tarece wrote poems as a way to escape her childhood trauma and found hope in one day becoming an artist. After graduating from Ross Shaw Sterling High School, Tarece studied at La Universidad Del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. While studying for her BA in Humanities, she engaged in multicultural dance performances and continued to write poetry. Tarece moved to New York to attend Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), and continued to pursue arts by acting, modeling, and creative writing. As she progressed in her academics and career, her pursuit of being an artist waned. Life happened and her responsibilities demanded her to work fulltime, however she never gave up on her dream. She later moved to Atlanta, worked, started a nonprofit preschool – elementary school, raised a family, and earned a MBA from Emory University and an EdD from Capella University. Dr. Tarece Johnson-Morgan has over 25 years of experience in diversity, inclusion, and equity and has evolved to include a focus on justice, belonging, and liberation. Tarece’s dedication to youth service, education, and performing & visual arts, are reflected in the work she does in America and around the globe. She is a published author of several poetry books, performs dance & poetry, and paints. To learn more about Tarece as an artist, click on the following link to visit her website:  Tarece Johnson-Morgan 

Tarece is passionate about art, cultural specificity, mental wellness, and multicultural/multilingual education.  She believes art is joy and it gives life to us all. She also knows that education is powerful, thereby investing much of her time meeting the academic and social-emotional needs of youth. As VP of Art, Culture, and Education. Dr. Tarece Johnson-Morgan aims to uplift Black artists by providing them a platform to showcase their creativity & talents, supporting students with arts scholarships, building Black-owned art businesses, and engaging in community empowerment. 

Tarece Johnson-Morgan is married to Andy Morgan, and they share three teenage children and pets. They live in Gwinnett County, GA.