Remembering and Reimagining the Stories of ‘Our’ Land
Remembering and Reimagining the Stories of ‘Our’ Land
This project launched in 2023 seeks to document, organize and elevate the past, present & future of Black land as a bedrock for the pursuit of an equitable and just future in this country.
Their Vision
This project endeavors to establish space - physical, digital and intellectual - dedicated and designed to remembering, preserving, and imagining the relationship between the Black American story and ‘American’ land, in all of its dimensions in past, present, and future.
And we expect these spaces to be intentionally created by and aligned with scholars, advocates, organizers, communities, farmers and families fighting to preserve this history, to reclaim and protect Black land, and to create futures with just access to food, to play, to wealth and all that this land has to offer—and owes—Black people.
The Exploration Continuum
- Preserve - Land & Cultural Legacy: Explores the efforts that are protecting and preserving the cultural legacy of Black people and land in this country through films, exhibitions, photos, storytelling, and other mediums. To ensure the preservation and sharing of historical black towns, and influential figures.
- Cultivate - Land & Agriculture: Captures the work of cultivating Black land for agriculture ranging from food production to horticulture. Highlighting the efforts of those fighting for equitable access to healthy food and land production for Black people.
- Protect - Land & Stewardship: Elevates the work of those who are seeking to protect land owned and stewarded by Black people. This can include climate justice, land loss prevention and other efforts to maintain, protect, and preserve the physical land.
- Build - Land & Black Futures: Highlights the imagining and reimagining Black land as an anchor asset for alternative economies and systems that advance the health, wealth and liberation of Black people and communities.
Build Up Companies
The Build Up Companies team is made up of people located across the world.
