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Alliance for Black Heritage Resilience

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Alliances are essential infrastructure for change. We whole-heartedly believe in joining forces to navigate, contest, and mitigate the range and rate of change to cultural heritage across America. We also know, from experience, that two-heads are better than one, and even more than that is needed to envision and strategize the succession and sustainability of what we hold dear.

Voices of Heritage is a member of national and international alliances communicating the adaptive capacity of cultural heritage and heritage stewards. We also are leaders of regional alliances that advance the aims and ambitions of these heritage stewardship networks within Black communities in particular.

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We’re here to help you find your peoples, and make good trouble!

❋ Massachusetts Sea Islands

Martha’s Vineyard. Nantucket. Newport. These islands, peninsulas, and capes share a common history of seafaring and slavery, liberation and leisure. They also can share a future of sustainability and livability. Through collaborative management of cultural resources, allies in adaptation of cultural heritage are forging new stories of freedom.

❋ Mid-Atlantic Coastal Communities

Atlantic shoreline towns and cities, from Staten Island to the Cheseapeake, have long been connected by navigational channels. Communities in this waterscape are building new avenues for communication and collaboration, and reactivating age-old ones. 

❋ Southeastern Sea and Shore Communities

Richmond (VA) and St. Helena Island (SC) are miles apart and separated by state lines. But, the people stewarding heritage in these places and landscapes in between share a a complex web of injustices, resistance and joy, both in the past and present. Speaking truth to power, heritage stewards are shaping the future of their past in places prone to misremember and erase it.

❋ Gulf South Communities

St. Augustine (FL) to New Orleans (LA) and beyond, “we” and “us” takes on a visceral, instinctual form—at least every hurricane season. Collectivity goes far beyond the environmental conditions of these places, to the cultural practices of people who make these places home and who’ve made them points on heritage trails or hosts of heritage festivals. Building capacity from precarity is second nature; telling those stories of cultural resilience to natural hazards is what can become natural too.