The Gathering: A Place For Narrative Change: We Remain Here : Instalation

Since touching the shores of this soil in 1619, Black people have faced historically the difficulties of forced migration, consistently displaced without a sense of a permanent home. Yet how do we change that narrative? How do we begin to acknowledge the intersectional histories etched into the land, community, and society we are a part of? How can Black people take up more space and be recentered in the legacy and story we helped to generate, even when it is on the brink of being erased?

We Remain Here dives into these questions. We’ve crafted a land acknowledgement commissioned by Mahogany L. Browne to honor the displaced flourishing Black and migrant community of Foggy Bottom that once resided right where the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and The Watergate Hotel currently are. This tribute will live on the REACH Wall as a banner for the week as a form of reclamation and remembrance of this historic Black community that was thriving.