From Boley to Blackdom, Rosewood to Seneca Village: All Black Towns is a growing musical archive honoring the historic Black towns and neighborhoods of America, one town and one story at a time.
Explore the towns Hear the musicThriving Black municipalities, districts, and settlements: built from nothing after Emancipation, many destroyed by violence, policy, or "progress." Each one gets its name sung back into history.
Allensworth: Colonel Allen Allensworth's 1908 Black city in the San Joaquin Valley; schoolhouse, stores, "we don't need permission to begin"; water cut, rail rerouted, sabotage by neglect; "a lesson in breath."
Bagley Park: a Black settlement erased by development: home deeds vanished from the county clerk's bin, runways paved over stories, jets overhead where lifelines were; "zoning laws struck like invisible hands." State un…
Barrett Station: freedmen's settlement under the stars; Barrett's name a beacon; railroad tracks and cane fields; gospel-fire churches; highways splitting the community; "the soil remembers all our names."
Beech Bottoms: 1870s freedmen settlement "under Carolina skies" (state unspecified: North or South Carolina); brick-by-brick building, church bells, then mob/Klan destruction by torch and rope; no plaque, no marker, no…
Belle Ville: Tunis G. Campbell's Reconstruction-era Black-governed settlement in McIntosh County (near Darien); ~1,000 acres bought and governed by Black folks; Campbell's stolen state senate seat; the "land or leave" u…
Brookville: free Black farming community in the Oakley area; Quaker neighbors, Black-owned land; grandmama's quilts, granddaddy's plow; the cabin still standing.
128 original songs and counting: each written for a specific town, carrying its history in the lyrics. Human-written words, composed with AI instruments, sung so the names are never forgotten.
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