We’re building a permanent, community-owned digital archive of Black land stories, oral histories, and artifacts — so this record can’t be stolen, sold, or erased. The archive covers land in the broadest sense: family farms, churches, urban blocks, migration routes, gardens. This aspiration pursues permanency for stories and scholarship that center the under-acknowledged prominence of Black land in the fabric of this country’s past, present and future.

We are growing the pool of Black land stories two ways: by equipping everyday people to document their own family’s land narratives, and by supporting storytellers and creatives who are already doing this work to reach further with it.

The scholars, advocates, and storytellers doing this work are often disconnected and under-resourced. We’re building connective tissue across the field — collaboration, shared learning, and coordinated funding — while developing research and shaping public narrative. The focus is on strengthening advocacy and building shared field knowledge, so the people doing this work aren’t working in isolation or under-financed.