About
Our mission is to create national holiday, “Remembrance Day” events that foster deeper cultural connections through anchoring the power of collective memory building in elders’ wisdom and community projects.
Remembrance is a Nationally Recognized Afrofuturism campaign for elders, an American collective memory project. Think, “The MOTH” or “TEDTalks” where we blend storytelling and practical actions into a platform that restores elders as our community anchors. Through our podcasts, live local celebrations, and local-to-national storytelling network, we are building a culture of remembrance for us, by us.
Our Theory of Change
By mapping the gaps between communities, creating spaces for storytelling, foster cultural connections, and amplify cultural expression across generations we’ll harness the our collective memory as evidence of the futures we want to build.
What I’ve seen over the years while building Cypher.
We’re a National Movement!
OUR SUCCESS:
- TEDx Jacksonville 2025 [Link]
- Initial grant in 2022-23 for Oral History Project [$20K]
- Partnership with Mayor of Moorestown on Mayorathon 2025 [$1,000 funds raised for Breast Cancer]
- Over [$350,000] in municipal fund dedicated to renovating
Yancy/Adams Park – where the “WestEnd Center” once stood - Recognized by South New Jersey Magazine [Link]
- Over 25,000+ social media engagements since Dec. 2025
Our work and success is the organized, and organic response to community led memory work, including direct partnerships with municipalities, Foundations, Schools, Culture Orgs, Religious Groups, Community:Family:Elders.
Our work is a success when we’re able to:
Digitize Archive of Elders’
Stories
Organize Memorial & Block Party Celebration
Connect Shared Podcasts Neighborhoods
Generate Intergenerational Cultural
Program by Sponsors
The Problem Today
We’ve lost interior lives, dignity, narrative control, intergenerational transmission, collective imagination. Put more rightly:
- Memory is disappearing.
- Elders are underserved.
- Intergenerational connection is breaking.
- Communities are losing cultural continuity.
What We Build
We create a generative, compassionate, and permissive space where elders speak their truths, the next generation listens with intention, and communities imagine freer futures together.
| podcasts | block party celebrations |
| local-to-national storytelling network | a culture of remembrance for us, by us, that funds public projects |
“I believe every block has a story.” – Founder Rob Jackson
Remembrance is a collective initiative to celebrate and preserve the stories & cultural expression of Black Communities. Our Elders hold:
- multigenerational wisdom,
- economic knowledge,
- healing traditions,
- political history,
- survival technologies,
- and lost rituals of celebration.
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