The Clotilda Descendants Association (CDA) is an organization founded by the living descendants of the Africans brought to Alabama aboard the Clotilda in 1860, the last known ship to illegally transport enslaved people to the United States. Based in Africatown, Alabama, the CDA is dedicated to preserving, protecting, and sharing the history, culture, and legacy of the Clotilda survivors and their descendants.

Kinfolkology is an open archive, database collective, and collaborative community dedicated to remembering enslaved ancestors as kin and kindred in full partnership with Descendant communities. Kinfolkology integrates datawork with rootwork, and research with care. Kinfolkology is dedicated to empowering Descendants with sovereignty over digital archives representing enslaved ancestors. Kinfolkology is guided by an understanding that while enslaved ancestors are no longer living, they were and are part of communities and families that are very much alive.

The mission of Chesapeake Heartland: An African American Humanities Project is to preserve, digitize, interpret, and make accessible materials related to African American history and culture in Kent County, Maryland and beyond. In collaboration with the National Museum of African American History and Culture, Washington College’s Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, and a diverse array of local organizations, Chesapeake Heartland seeks to build a model of grassroots preservation, curation, and interpretation for communities across the region.

The Ruby and Calvin Fletcher African-American History Museum is Connecticut’s first dedicated African-American history museum. Opened in October 2021 by Jeffrey Fletcher to honor his parents, it offers immersive, chronological tours from1619 to the present, featuring hundreds of artifacts.