We produced booklets like our Cincinnati Black History Activity Book, in partnership with local groups like the Robert O'Neal Multicultural Arts Center.
We make short-form audio and visual content with collaborators like Cincinnati Public Radio!
Preserving Place Through Story
Our first video on Cincinnati's West End neighborhood (produced by the Urban Roots team) told the story of community that experienced systematic erasure byway urban renewal through archival photos provided by ROMAC.
In 2022, the Urban Roots podcast team produced the follow up to the first urban renewal video to show how highways impacted the African American-majority neighborhoods of Evanston, Avondale, and South Cumminsville.
Thanks to our partner, the Robert O'Neal Multicultural Center, artist Merritt Holdcraft, and designer Deqah H.W., Urbanist Media published its first Black history activity book in 2024, which featured people and places significant to Cincinnati's African American history.
We preserve place through story to ensure community voices are heard, shared, and valued through the preservation of cultural memory. We use storytelling to engage publics with oral histories and contextual narratives to document the past. One such way we take action against systemic urban issues, and top-down development, has been through our flagship podcast, Urban Roots and various programs.
We are an organization that connects people and place through public history, community preservation, and urban planning by amplifying histories that depict shared cultural experiences. We expand the breadth of civic engagement through a multi-disciplinary approach to help inform a better future, so that development just doesn't happen to communities without their input and involvement.
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