BlackSpace demands a present and future where Black people, Black spaces, and Black culture matter and thrive.
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11 Oct 2020
Meet the Black design collective reimagining how cities get built fastcompany.com/90540241/mee…
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26 Apr 2024
🍽️🚌🏙️ 5 days left to grab a ticket for our upcoming Chicago urbanist bus tour brunch fundraiser! Part of our national Collective Convening, the event is for all people curious about Black contributions to the built environment! Get on the bus! buff.ly/3xOFImC
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13 Feb 2024
#PublicSpaces should be enjoyable & safe for all!
If you’re a Black-identified individual in Canada or the US please complete & share this survey. Also, if you’re connected with Black community stakeholders, please share. isryorku.ca/beingblackinpubl… By
@Jay_Pitter
CC @place_canada
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22 Feb 2024
Homestead #welcomes Julia Jannon-Shields to our Board in 2024!🎉
Julia serves as the Community Engagement & Policy Advisor @KingCountyWA's Office of Equity, Racial & Social Justice. She is also involved in @SoundRegion's Equity Advisory Committee, @UWalum, and @blackspaceorg.
ALT This graphic includes an image of new Homestead CLT Board Member Julia Jannon-Shields and welcomes her to the Homestead Board in 2024.
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17 Jan 2024
🌱 NEW ROLES! 🌱 Development Director and Brownsville Heritage House Project Manager. Check out the job details and benefits at the link and apply (or share with good peoples!). Open until filled. buff.ly/3HkHa1E
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29 Jul 2023
In 1910, 14% of farmers were Black, owning more than 16 million acres of land — today only 1 in 100 farmers are Black! The documentary “Gaining Ground” is uncovering the long-term effects this had on Black families and their pursuit of generational wealth. fal.cn/3AiyT
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31 Jul 2023
Yes-National focus on Black Cemetery erasure. Bright lights and Miles to go! Visit the blackcemeterynetwork.com —Submit your site/share your story/find ways to help.
30 Jul 2023
“Not just Clearwater, it’s nationally from New York, all the way out toward Texas, and all the way down to South Florida where these cemeteries had been built over—erased,” anthropologist Antoinette Jackson tells 60 Minutes. cbsn.ws/3DkrUjd
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20 Jul 2023
The Black in Design 2023 Committee has opened up a Request For Proposals form for workshops! Click the link in bio to learn more about the workshops themes and RFP submission process. RFPs due July 21, 2023!
#bidconference2023 #BiD2023 #blackhome2023 #GSDAASU @harvardgsd
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19 Jul 2023
Stay tuned for updates about events at the Institute! We are building something here. Something beautiful and exciting. home.dartmouth.edu/news/2023…
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19 Jul 2023
Greenwood, Tulsa—the famous "Black Wall Street"—before and after highway construction and “urban renewal."
"Decades after the Tulsa Race Massacre [in 1921], urban ‘renewal’ [in the 1960s] sparked Black Wall Street’s second destruction," writes @SmithsonianMag.
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18 Jul 2023
✨@instrument partnered with @blackspaceorg to create an evolved brand, design system & digital experience to empower them into the future.
Learn the story behind the Webby-recognized site — built on #WordPress, powered by @wpengine — in #CraftedWithCode! wbby.co/3XXrjh2
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18 Jul 2023
City Approves Design for Shirley Chisholm Monument in Prospect Park - The New York Times
We’re back in action!!! @awstudioart
🙌🏿🌟🙌🏿 nytimes.com/2023/07/17/arts/…
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14 Jul 2023
Today is a special day in NYC history.
On July 14, 1970, Puerto Rican Black activists—known as the Young Lords—took over Lincoln Hospital in the South Bronx.
They were fed up w/ disinvestment, racism, substandard healthcare.
Working class ppl have always galvanized this city!
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14 Jul 2023
Honored and ready to serve!
14 Jul 2023
We would like to congratulate Andrew Sargeant on his nomination and confirmation to the City Planning Commission! Notables: Enterprise Rose Architectural Fellow, Landscape Architecture Foundation Fellowship, Black Landscape Architects Network Board.
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13 Jul 2023
The Southern front porch is as American as mom, the flag, and apple pie—right? Not quite, according to the late John Michael Vlach, PhD, an anthropologist and historian, who maintained that this architectural mainstay was brought to the Americas by enslaved Africans.
ALT Traditional Yorùbán architecture
ALT Inside a Yorùbán courtyard
ALT Page on African influences in American architecture from Vlach’s book “The Afro-American Tradition in Decorative Arts.”
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14 Jul 2023
I-20 in Atlanta was intentionally routed to serve as a “boundary between the white and Negro communities,” in the words of Mayor Hartsfield. Construction displaced an est. 7,500 people in 2,200 homes. Despite making up 37% of Atl's pop. in '60, 60% of those displaced were Black.
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14 Jul 2023
The latest piece from #NewCityCritics: 🖊️
@aliciaoajayi, @EmmaOsore, and @sofonimjozef, members of the @blackspaceorg Urbanist Collective, form the in-between writing collab to pen “Building Worlds In-Between,” out today in @UrbanOmnibus. (1/4)
urbanomnibus.net/2023/07/bui…
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13 Jul 2023
So happy to see my review of The 272: The Families Who Were Enslaved and Sold to Build the American Catholic Church by @rachelswarns published in the @washingtonpost. If you didn't read it yet, go get it. #slaveryarchive #twitterstorians washingtonpost.com/books/202…
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13 Jul 2023
ICYMI: We are now accepting applications for the Preserving Black Churches grant program!
Learn more about eligibility requirements and sign up for an informational session at the link below.
Applications are due August 23: ow.ly/X6M050P8Ttf
#TellTheFullStory
ALT Exterior of the Basilica of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Norfolk, VA
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13 Jul 2023
Mavis Gragg ’24 is preserving African American land, promoting forest conservation, and building intergenerational resilience and wealth. She’ll be honored as the NC Wildlife Federation Forest Conservationist of the Year 9/9. mountainx.com/blogwire/nc-wi…
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12 Jul 2023
Once home to a thriving Black community, much of Southwest DC was demolished in the 1960s for highway construction. A new report from @T4America & @SmartGrowthUSA analyzes what communities lost when highways tore through—and how we can begin to repair: smartgrowthamerica.org/progr…
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