The 300+ year transatlantic slave trade forcibly displaced Sub-Saharan Africans and subsequently populated the Western Hemisphere with millions of African-descended people from the 16th to the 19th centuries. This project will not only explore the ways in which dispersion as well as displacement have affected the ways in which African and African American people show up, move through, and exist in contemporary American culture. It will also explore the inherent connections and radical and intellectual traditions (e.g., language, healing, artistic practices, institution building) that bind and bridge those who may find their roots within the African Diaspora. Through self and communal exploration, writing, and researching, we will begin to piece together stories told and untold.