The Archive

50 Stories
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.