Black Bottom Archives (BBA) is a community-driven media platform dedicated to centering and amplifying the voices, experiences, and perspectives of Black Detroiters through digital storytelling, journalism, art, and community organizing with a focus on preserving local Black history & archiving our present., Black Bottom Archives Presents: Sankofa Community Research (SCR) is a Black Detroiter led, year-long community research project in partnership with Detroit Peoples Platform and academic partners at the University of Michigan, Eastern Michigan University, and Wayne State University to collect oral histories and conduct historical research to document the multi-generational impact of the destruction of Black Bottom and Paradise Valley on Black Detroiters; and to explore Black Detroiters collective vision for reparations as part of the 'I-375 Reconnecting Communities Project.', and Bringing together oral histories, census records, business records, historic maps, and other sources, we will examine how displacement impacted people, businesses, cultural centers, environment, public space, and infrastructure and produce a community report that presents evidence of impact and proposes reparative actions.
More information about Black Bottom Archives can be found at https://www.blackbottomarchives.com/.
