Looking Back to Move Forward | Dr. Kwesi Daniels The preservation of African American sites is often performed by everyday people who are not formally…
The Power of Design Ideas | Dr. Kwesi Daniels In 1860, approximately 50 years after the transatlantic slave trade was abolished, the Clotilda, the last…
Atlanta’s St. Mark’s Ame | Dr. Danielle S. Willkens & Pastor Winston Taylor The historic St. Mark AME (b.1920; abandoned 1976) is located at the…
African American Women as Civil Rights Movement Legacy Keepers in Jackson, Mississippi | Debra Schultz Jackson, Mississippi is emerging as a civil rights memory landscape…
Enduring Guardians and Emergent Guarantors of African American Place Preservation an Martha’s Vineyard and Beyond | Dr. Fallon Samuels Aidoo Martha’s Vineyard, a Massachusetts island…
Kwesi Daniels In 2003, Jennifer Newsom, then a second-year architecture graduate student at Yale University asked her professor, ‘Why aren’t we studying black [architecture]? The…
Liberia and The Back-to-Africa Heritage and Archaeology Research Project | Chrislyn Laurie Laurore & Craig Stevens In 1822, Black American settlers seeking respite from racialized…
