The Archive

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Louise Trice poses for a portrait during an interview for Capital B's oral history project.
Atlanta, GA • 1960s

How Growing Up In Rural Georgia Taught Me The Power Of Community
Paulah Wheeler poses for a portrait during an interview for Capital B's oral history project.
Atlanta, GA • 2020s

Black Health Is About More Than Medicine
Atlanta, GA • 2020s

The Black Seniors Who Remember Atlanta Before the Stadiums
Portrait of Brian Page seated during an oral history interview in front of a collage of historic photographs and community images.
Atlanta, GA • 2020s

I Organized a Gas Station Boycott Because Racism Should Cost You Customers
Royal, FL • 1950s

I Helped Bring Health Care to My Hometown in Rural Florida
Gary, IN • 1950s

I Hope My Great-Great-Grandchildren See the Gary I Knew
Washington, D.C. • 1970s

We Used to Watch All the Neighbors’ Kids
Gary, IN • 1950s

I Never Tried to Stop Being Southern
Gary, IN • 1960s

I Can’t Remember a Time I Wasn’t Proud to Be Black
Gary, IN • 1970s

The Women Who Raised Me Never Taught Me to Fear White People
Royal, FL • 2010s

There Are Only Two Black Homesteading Communities in America. Mine Is One of Them.
Gary, IN • 2000s

What Gary Gave Me
Gary, IN • 1990s

If You’re From Gary’s East Side, You Remember Mr. Charlie’s
Gary, IN • 1980s

We Didn’t Have to Leave Gary to Find Opportunity
2020s

More Black Women Are Returning South. Staying There Is Getting Harder.
Gary, IN

Shoe Repairman in Gary Restores Community, One Sole at a Time
New Orleans, LA • 2000s

I Make Art in New Orleans, Knowing It Will Disappear
New Orleans, LA • 1980s

I’ve Been Shooting Polaroids of Black New Orleans Since 1984. There’s No Archive Like Mine.
Miami, FL • 2020s

I’m From Little Haiti, the Part of Miami Tourists Never See
New Orleans, LA • 2000s

I Almost Lost My Arm After Katrina. But Nothing Could Make Me Leave Home.
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