Black Preservation Stories
Black Preservation Stories
Podcast Description
Black Preservation Stories uncovers the passion, challenges, and triumphs of the preservationists who safeguard Black history and communities for future generations. We amplify their voices and highlight projects that counter historical erasure and expand the preservation of Black heritage. We demystify the process behind every effort by examining how communities mobilize resources, sustain initiatives, and leverage preservation to strengthen identity, social cohesion, advocacy, and empowerment. Showcasing these grassroots movements, Black Preservation Stories both celebrates the resilience of Black communities and calls for systemic change to ensure equitable representation in America’s collective history.
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The podcast covers a range of topics centered on the preservation of Black culture and history, with episodes examining grassroots projects like the restoration of the Tanner House, the Mound Bayou Museum's legacy, and the Bellevue Passage Museum's fight against development. These themes highlight community mobilization, social cohesion, and empowerment while addressing systemic inequities.
Black Preservation Stories uncovers the passion, challenges, and triumphs of the preservationists who safeguard Black history and communities for future generations. We amplify their voices and highlight projects that counter historical erasure and expand the preservation of Black heritage. We demystify the process behind every effort by examining how communities mobilize resources, sustain initiatives, and leverage preservation to strengthen identity, social cohesion, advocacy, and empowerment. Showcasing these grassroots movements, Black Preservation Stories both celebrates the resilience of Black communities and calls for systemic change to ensure equitable representation in America’s collective history.
In 1952, Glendale Townhomes became one of Minneapolis’s first public housing communities—home to Black Americans, East African and Hmong immigrants, refugees, students, and working-class families. Decades later, as city officials sought to privatize or demolish its 184 units, residents organized the Defend Glendale & Public Housing Coalition, transforming a threat of displacement into a movement for dignity, equity, and the right to stay, and redefining preservation itself—not only as saving buildings, but as protecting people, memories, and community life.
bghpn.org / dgphc.org
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