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Video and text from recorded testimony from Joe Burns as a part of the Tulsa Race Riot (Massacre) Commission survivor inquiry. Burns was a child in 1921, but shares his memories of what he heard from adults around him and what he saw from his…

Video and text from interview with Joe Burns, O.G. Clark, Mrs. G.E. Jackson for the National Visionary Leadership Project discussing the events leading up to and early communication during the destruction of the Greenwood neighborhood during the 1921…

Rachelson talks about when he feels “like a Miamian” which is especially when dancing salsa, at the ventanita, and every time he hears Spanish.  

Carlos Gonzalez talks about Garifuna history and identity while mapping his own lineage. He describes his drum, its importance in Garifuna ceremonies, and how he fixed the instrument with the help of his great-grandfather who came to him in a dream.

Interview with Clarita Filgueiras, a performer and choreographer who has spent a lifetime mastering the art of flamenco dance. Her passion for this Spanish tradition originates with her father and grandmother (both flamenco singers) and her mother,…

Black and white drawing by American political cartoonist George Yost Coffin (1850-1896). Image features a woman wearing stars and stripes holding a candle to a mirror on Halloween night to learn the identity of her future spouse; the face revealed in…

"New York, New York. Chinese-American girl playing hopscotch with American friends outside her home in Flatbush." August 1942.

Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Vermont farmer Jonathan Corcoran of Middlebury, VT where he discusses the relationship between agriculture, food and place. Recording duration 4:13.

Cory Osceola and a white woman examine Seminole patchwork at Musa Isle, 1927.

Audio and text excerpt from an interview with Carolyn Driedger where she discusses souvenir tee shirts sold at the time of the eruption and her difficulty in wearing one in light of the resulting loss of life and scale of the destruction. Duration…