Africans in America

Supported by: PBS and the National Endowment for the Humanities

America's journey through slavery is presented in four parts. For each era, you'll find a historical Narrative, a Resource Bank of images, documents, stories, biographies, and commentaries, and a Teacher's Guide for using the content of the Web site and television series in U.S. history courses.

BlackSpace

Our collective brings together planners, architects, artists, and designers as Black urbanists, people who are passionate about the work of public systems and urban infrastructures. We created the BlackSpace Manifesto to practice new ways of protecting and creating Black spaces in the built environment.

Black Archives 



Founded in 2015, by Renata Cherlise, Black Archives is a multimedia platform that brings a spotlight to the Black experience. Through an evolving visual exploration, Black Archives provides a dynamic accessibility to a Black past, present, and future.

Going beyond the norm, its lens examines the nuance of Black life: alive and ever-vibrant to both the everyday and iconic — providing insight and inspiration to those seeking to understand the legacies that preceded their own.

Black Towns & Settlements Project 



A REAL Resilience Initiative Project

This project is the result of the nonprofit  Next Leadership Development 's Racial Equity, Accountability, and Leadership (REAL) Resilience Initiative. REAL Resilience Fellow Cymone Davis, Black Towns Municipal Management (BTMM) , laid the foundation through researching places in America where Black people who had earned their freedom called home. Next Leadership Development Executive Director, Dr. Atyia Martin, coached Cymone on the data collection and organization process. 

We have seen estimates that there may have been as many as 1,200 Black Towns in America.

Black Towns, Black Futures: The Enduring Allure of a Black Place in the American West

Authored: Dr. Karla Slocum, The University of North Carolina Press

Some know Oklahoma's Black towns as historic communities that thrived during the Jim Crow era—this is only part of the story. In this book, Karla Slocum shows that the appeal of these towns is more than their past. Drawing on interviews and observations of town life spanning several years, Slocum reveals that people from diverse backgrounds are still attracted to the communities because of the towns' remarkable history as well as their racial identity and rurality. 

Bois & Peters LLC 



Bois & Peters LLC is a real estate and consulting agency dedicated to building and supporting Historic Black towns and communities across the United States. The company's mission is to create vibrant and sustainable communities using New Urbanist principles that prioritize walkability, diversity, and sustainability.

Historic Black Towns and Settlements Alliance



An organization dedicated to preserving and promoting the history, culture, and legacy of historic Black towns and settlements in the United States. These towns and settlements are historically significant as they were established by African Americans during times of segregation and racial discrimination.

kweliTV

kweliTV celebrates global Black stories and amplifies Black storytellers from North America, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia and Australia. Our mission is to curate and create content that is a true reflection of the global Black experience that’s oftentimes missing in traditional media.



MORE MONEY Music Video



MORE MONEY is a music/video production concept created by Cymone Davis, Former Town Manager of Tullahassee, OK to create a social movement around the timely conversation of reparations and equity.



Open Design Co.

Open Design Collective is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization that brings together underrepresented communities and the design and city planning resources necessary to promote social and spatial change.



Open Design Collective was created by some of the founding members of BlackSpace Oklahoma

Rebuild Tullahassee



Powered by: The Congressional Black Caucus for New Urbanism

Be part of rebuilding the First Black Town in Oklahoma! Rebuild Tullahassee is a fundraising mechanism to raise capital to beautify and bring awareness to the new investment and development of Tullahassee OK.

The Africatown International Design Idea Competition 

Africatown shot to the forefront of the world’s consciousness with the sensational May 2019 discovery of the sunken slave ship Clotilda in the Mobile River Delta. It illegally brought 110 kidnapped West Africans to America’s shores in 1860. After a short enslavement, and unable to return home, 32 of the Africans formed and governed their own community in 1865. Their descendants and the community they founded exist today, but Africatown suffers from generations of benign neglect and industrial encroachment.

The Africatown International Design Idea Competition leverages the spectacular Clotilda find to give multi-disciplinary design teams a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to imagine a revived Africatown, with 16 land and water-edged venues on 4 sites across 3 cities that interpret and honor its history.

The Black Resilience Network

Powered by: Next Leadership Development 

The Black Resilience Network is a membership community of Black organizations and leaders supported by non-Black identifying people and organizations - who work each day to strengthen disaster and climate resilience, which requires advancing racial justice.

The Brick TV

The Brick TV is a streaming service that features culturally responsive content from the voices of those communities. This platform is a place to be in community, to enjoy the brilliant creations of those that created the culture, and to experience a wide array of emotions while viewing productions rooted in love and excellence.

The Congressional Black Caucus for New Urbanism, Inc.

The Congressional Black Caucus for New Urbanism is both an organization and a movement. What started as an interest group within the Congress for New Urbanism, is now a non-profit organization. We continue to advance the Black community by actively combating systemic racism in the housing industry by: project based work, providing networking opportunities, mentorship, informing policy, and education.

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project



The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is an educational and social justice initiative dedicated to supporting the preservation of Black settlement landscapes, heritage, and grassroots preservation practices through research

Tulsa Race Massacre-Online Resources: Black Experience in Oklahoma

From 1905 - May 31, 1921, Tulsa's Greenwood District was a thriving, affluent Black neighborhood. By the morning of June 1, 1921, it lay in ashes and rubble, having been burned to the ground by a white mob.

Included in this guide are online resources and exhibits that provide an in-depth look at the events of the Tulsa Race Massacre, the history of the Greenwood District, and the Black experience in Tulsa and Oklahoma.

USC Race and Equity Center



Our mission is to illuminate, disrupt, and dismantle racism in all its forms. We do this through rigorous interdisciplinary research, high-quality professional learning experiences, the production and wide dissemination of useful tools, trustworthy consultations and strategy advising, and substantive partnerships.