The Collective Memory Project
Our work is highly purpose driven. We know that creating a national holiday that celebrates elders, honors their wisdom, and bridges generational gaps through advocacy and tech is about more than a one day, its a movement, a call for us to remember who we are, and who we want to be in the future.
The future is built on the stories we choose to remember.
It’s our time to participate!
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.
How it Started? |
Since 2020, Robert Jackson has been speaking to people around the country about creating a new national holiday centered on memorializing this communal wisdom. He believes that by elevating and celebrating storytellers, especially our elders, we can ignite a spirit of radical curiosity.
We all carry within us histories. Who are we? Who will we be? What future do we want to see when we look back together? These questions are the core of Remembrance.
Where it’s Going?!? |
Remembrance Day will be a call to action — to listen, to watch, and to learn from those who’ve come before us. In an increasingly fractured and siloed America, Remembrance is a campaign for resurfacing shared values and rebuilding intergenerational community that nurtures our interest in the bonds we’ve forgotten
The Core Experience
Documenting Stories of Black Elders
Revitalizing the past with a modern twist
Local Live Events
Community driven events that integrate play, storytelling & tech to create a Living Museums of Black Memory and Joy
Amplify Cultural Expression
vibrant memories recreated at live events.
Providing captivating attractions for families, communities, & travelers
Embody and feel the rush of vibrating with the ancestors through music, art, and immersive tech
Current Remembrance Sites
Remember With Us | Be on the lookout for Remembrance Day in your hometown (see map below).
HQ
Anacostia – Washington, DC
EAST COAST
Glenarden, MD
Moorestown, NJ
MID-WEST
McKeesport, PA
St. Paul, MN
THE SOUTH
Atlanta, GA
Charlottesville, VA
Jacksonville, FL
Richmond, VA
Roanoke, VA
Treme – New Orleans, LA
- Anacostia, Washington, DC, United States
- Moorestown, NJ, United States
- Treme, New Orleans, LA, United States
- McKeesport, PA, United States
- Wilmington, DE, United States
- St Paul, MN, United States
- Jacksonville, FL, United States
- Atlanta, GA, United States
- 19352, Lincoln University, PA, United States
- Richmond, VA, United States
- Roanoke, VA, United States
- Charlottesville, VA, United States
- Glenarden, MD, United States
“Cultures, whether silenced or monologistic, whether repressed or pressing , seek meaning in the language and images available to them ” – Toni Morrison