Black Spaces Matter.

The Black Liberation Walking Tour is a community-led cultural asset map that celebrates Hoover Durant’s multigenerational Black history and culture, asserts resident voice, and documents sites of cultural and historical importance of our neighborhood. We celebrate belonging through the 100 year narrative ribbon that leads from the early West Coast civil rights movement through the second wave of the Great Migration to the Black Liberation actions of the present day.

A project of the Friends of the Hoover-Durant Public Library (FOHDPL), the Black Liberation Walking Tour captures oral histories to document the lives and culture of long-time residents, historical figures, and rapidly disappearing former Black spaces. We are creating this archive to mitigate cultural erasure and physical displacement. We're galvanizing a collaborative development effort grounded in claiming community and cultural spaces by working towards the reestablishment of the Hoover Durant Public Library branch in our neighborhood and acquiring community controlled commercial spaces.