Bridging the gap

WE ARE BLACKNESS

Bridging the gap

We're not a t-shirt brand that talks about culture. We're a cultural transmission project that takes the form of clothing.

Sodabi: Benin's Sacred Spirit and the Memory of the Ancestors

Libation is millennia old, sodabi barely a century. How a palm wine spirit born in 1920s Benin, banned for forty-four years, became the drink poured for the ancestors. Read more...

Black identity across generations: honoring the past to build the future

A people with no history goes nowhere. From Woodson to the griots, what every generation had to learn, make and pass on so Black identity would survive. Read more...