• Rise Home Stories
  • Rise-Home Stories is a groundbreaking collaboration between multimedia storytellers and social justice advocates seeking to change our relationship to land, home, and race, by transforming the stories we tell about them.
• The Roots of Structural Racism Project - Othering and Belonging Institute
  • The Roots of Structural Racism Project investigates the persistence of racial residential segregation across the United States. Among the many components included in this project are the national segregation report which contains startling findings about the intensification of racial residential segregation in recent decades; and an interactive mapping tool that illustrates the level of segregation in every city, region, and neighborhood in the country.
• The Texas Freedom Colonies Project by Dr. Andrea Roberts  
  • The Texas Freedom Colonies Project is an educational and social justice initiative dedicated to supporting the preservation of Black settlement landscapes, heritage, and grassroots preservation practices through research
• Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America 
  • How does race structure America’s cities? MoMA’s first exhibition and online learning platform to explore the relationship between architecture and the spaces of African American and African diaspora communities, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America presents 11 newly commissioned works by architects, designers, and artists that explore ways in which histories can be made visible and equity can be built. 
• Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt
  • Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt maps several historic all-Black towns and Freedom Colonies across the United States pre-and post-Civil war — many destroyed by displacement, development, racist violence, and environmental injustice. Mmere Dane: Black Time Belt functions as a Black Quantum Futurist archive of alternative past-present-future(s) where the towns form a network of Black temporal zones–or a Black Time Belt–protecting these communities from the impacts of temporal-spatial oppression and destructive linear progressive timelines.
• Community Futures Lab
  • The purpose of FUTURESLAB.COMMUNITY is to document shared memories, histories, and futures of communities in Brewerytown-Sharswood and the larger North Philly community.
• Dark Matter University
  • Collective liberation cannot only occur within the confines of individual institutions — Dark Matter University is founded to work inside and outside of existing systems to challenge, inform, and reshape our present world toward a better future.
• Project Row Houses 
  • Project Row Houses is a community platform that enriches lives through art with an emphasis on cultural identity and its impact on the urban landscape. We engage neighbors, artists, and enterprises in collective creative action to help materialize sustainable opportunities in marginalized communities. Project Row Houses occupies a significant footprint in Houston’s Historic Third Ward, one of the city’s oldest African-American neighborhoods. The site encompasses five city blocks and houses 39 structures that serve as a home base to a variety of community-enriching initiatives, art programs, and neighborhood development activities.
• The Nap Ministry 
  • The Nap Ministry was founded in 2016 by Tricia Hersey and is an organization that examines the liberating power of naps. Their “REST IS RESISTANCE” framework and practice engages with the power of performance art, site-specific installations, and community organizing to install sacred and safe spaces for the community to rest together. We facilitate immersive workshops and curate performance art that examines rest as a radical tool for community healing.  We believe rest is a form of resistance and name sleep deprivation as a racial and social justice issue. 
• Housing Justice Narrative
  • The Housing Justice Narrative project is a collaboration of PolicyLink, Community Change, and Race Forward, supported by Funders for Housing and Opportunity. 
• Webs of Care by Ingrid Raphaël
  • a self-paced workshop on naming your needs and relating to and with care
• The American Riad 
• We Make the Future
  • We Make the Future (WMTF) was founded in 2021 and is built on the work of Race Class Narrative Action with ASO Communications and Faith in Minnesota and rooted in the research behind the Race Class Narrative. WMTF combines strategic communications and coalition building to develop a shared narrative that motivates our base and persuades the middle. Working in partnership with researchers, content creators, labor and community-based organizations, WMTF aid in the implementation of messaging research by building the capacity of communicators, organizers, and spokespeople.
• Displaced New Orleans
  • Beginning with the formation of New Orleans and its cartography of violence and racial slavery, DISPLACED traces the geographies of black displacement, dislocation, containment, and disposability in land-use planning, housing policy, and urban development in the city, combining a timeline and atlas highlighting moments of refusal, rupture, and protest.

• Jim Crow of the North - Full-Length Documentary
• Beyond Tulsa: The Secret History of Flooding Black Towns to Make Lakes | The Amber Ruffin Show
• A missing 200 years of Black architecture history | Ep 10 | REIMAGINING BLACKNESS & ARCHITECTURE
• Rare Footage Shows All-Black Towns in 1920s America | NowThis
• The History Of "Sundown Towns" | This Day Forward | msnbc
• What Lawyers Can Do to Prevent Evictions: American Bar Association

• Moor Mother - Circuit City [FULL ALBUM STREAM]
  • Poet and noise musician Moor Mother presents her first theatrical work, a futuristic exploration — part musical, part choreopoem, part play — of public/private ownership, housing, and technology set in a living room in a corporate-owned apartment complex. Framed by Moor mother’s bold poetry performed live by Irreversible Entanglements, Mental Jewelry, Madam Data, and Elon Battle, Circuit City is an afrofuturist song cycle for our current climate.
     
• Housing as a Human Right - Radical Imagination Podcast
  • Features Dominique Walker, co-founder of Moms4Housing, discusses how the group is demanding access to housing and taking on investors who treat housing as a commodity they can buy and flip for profit, while a half-million Americans experience homelessness and millions more struggle with skyrocketing rents. Also featuring Tara Raghuveer, the Housing Campaign Director for People’s Action, about the Homes Guarantee, an ambitious proposal to rebuild and reimagine housing.

Some of the materials linked in the written section require a purchase or an academic log-in, we’ve noted which materials are freely available.

Articles

• Things That Make a Difference: Housing Futures Month and Narrative by Laura Hughes
• Race Against Time: Afrofuturism and Our Liberated Housing Futures by Rasheedah Phillips (freely available)
• Maroon Geographies by Dr. Celeste Winston
• Creative extraction: Black towns in white space by Danielle Purifoy (freely available)
• The parable of Black places by Danielle Purifoy
• Rebellious Architecture by V. Mitch McEwen and Kristina Kay Robinson
• The Bottom: The Emergence and Erasure of Black American Urban Landscapes by Ujijji Davis-Williams (freely available)
• Infrastructures of Empire and Resistance by Deborah Cowen (freely available)
• Portals to Freedom, or Researching in Limbo Time by Dr. Andrea Roberts (freely available)
• Inserting Temporality into the Analysis of Displacement: Living Under the Threat of Displacement by Bahar Sakizliog Lu
• White Time: The Chronic Injustice of Ideal Theory by Charles W. Mills 
• Smoke, Curtains and Mirrors: The Production of Race Through Time and Title Registration by Sarah Keenan (freely available)
• Cheryl Harris, Whiteness as Property, 106 Harv. L. Rev. 1707 (1995) (freely available) 
• Project: Time Capsule by Rasheedah Phillips (freely available)
• “Race: The Power of an Illusion - A Long History of Affirmative Action  (for Whites)” - http://newsreel.org/guides/race/whiteadv.htm (freely available)
• The Case for Reparations by Ta-Nehisi Coates, The Atlantic (freely available)
• Under One Roof: Building an Abolitionist Approach to Housing Justice by Sophie House and Krystle Okafor (Sept/Oct 2020 P&R Issue) (freely available)
• Love Space, or, How to Recognize Blackgirl Spatialities by Loren S. Cahill (freely available)
• Adaptive liminality: Bridging and bonding social capital between urban and rural Black meccas by Andrea Roberts and Melina Matos
• Contending with the Palimpsest: Reading the Land through Black Women’s Emotional Geographies by Andrea Roberts and Maia L. Butler

Books:

• Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
• Cities Imagined: The African Diaspora in Media and History by Walter Greason and Julian Chambliss
• Sundown Towns by James Loewen
• Black Geographies and the Politics of Place edited by Katherine McKittrick and Clyde Woods
• Beyond Settler Time: Temporal Sovereignty and Indigenous Self-Determination by Mark Rifkin
• Fictions of Land and Flesh: Blackness, Indigeneity, Speculation by Mark Rifkin
• Root Shock: How Tearing Up City Neighborhoods Hurts America, And What We Can Do About It by Mindy Thompson Fullilove (2004)
• Urban Alchemy: Restoring Joy in America's Sorted-Out Cities by Mindy Thompson Fullilove
• Walking the Clouds: An Anthology of Indigenous Science Fiction by Grace L. Dillon (Editor)
• Mama Day by Gloria Naylor
• The Parable Series by Octavia Butler
• Toxic Communities: Environmental Racism, Industrial Pollution, and Residential Mobility by Dorceta E. Taylor
• Know Your Price: Value Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre M. Perry 
• Race and Real Estate edited by Adrienne Brown and Valerie Smith 
• White Space, Black Hood: Opportunity Hoarding and Segregation in the Age of Inequality by Sheryll Cashin 
• The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
• Black Futures edited by Jenna Wortham and Kimberly Drew
• The Fair Housing Five and the Haunted House
• Black Joy by Tracey Michae'l Lewis-Giggetts 

• Housing Journey Map
  • Create a map of your housing journey with all the places you have lived or called home, and/or places you would like to call home in the future. What does your housing journey say about you? Your identity? Your sense of home? Sense of community?
• Future Generations Impact Assessment 
  • At the beginning of any project or program, it's important to understand the impact of your activities on generations to come. The worksheet moves you through a series of key questions to assess intended impact, unintended consequences, and community response.
• HeART & Home Community Art Project 
  • As part of Fair Housing Month, this tool invites artists of all ages to share what home and/or inclusive community means to you. You can find materials and art prompts to guide your creative making. You can use these prompts to encourage your community or individual creative process to reflect on inclusive housing, and its impact on how communities thrive.

• HUD Mid-Atlantic Eviction Prevention & Mitigation Strategies - April 14 at 2 p.m. ET (virtual)
  • The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), presents a virtual convening on eviction prevention and mitigation strategies on Thursday, April 1 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. ET. This event is designed to support communities in their efforts to minimize family displacements and evictions as the nation builds back from the devastating impacts of the coronavirus pandemic.
• Time Zone Protocols Exhibition (April 4-18) and Prime Meridian Unconference (April 15-17) - (virtual and limited in-person)
  • Streaming at www.timezoneprotocols.space 
  • Tracing the creation of written and unwritten political agendas, social agreements, and rules underlying Westernized time constructs with the aim of highlighting the impacts that oppressive time protocols and policies have on marginalized Black communities in the US in particular, catalyzing and perpetuating systems of oppression that deny Black communities access to and agency over the temporal domains of the past, present, and the future.
  • Exhibition Photos Available Here 
• Screening of MINE at the Pan-African Film Festival - April 23 at 12:45 p.m. PT and April 30 at 9:40 p.m. PT (in-person)
  • Place: Cinemark Theaters BHC 15, on the grounds of the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza, 3650 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd, Los Angeles CA 90008
  • MINE is an animated series that explores the difficult and worthwhile fight for the community you love. When the sudden disappearance of water -- their main life source -- threatens to upend a vibrant utopia, an intrepid teen named Blaze must save their community before it’s too late.
• TogetherCon featuring DOT’S HOME - April 23-24 from 10 a.m. ET – 12 p.m. ET (virtual)
  • DOT'S HOME is a single-player game about DOROTHEA (DOT) HAWKINS, a young Black woman in her late 20’s living with her grandmother MAVIS HAWKINS in Detroit, Michigan. Following a cryptic conversation with her grandmother, Dot receives a MYSTERIOUS KEY. This key allows Dot to open a door within her house and travel to another space in time within her own family history.