About HPMCA
HMPCA Mission
The Harlem Place Memory & Culture Archive empowers Harlem’s intergenerational community and culture-makers to document, share, access, and connect over Harlem’s living cultural landscape. The Archive collects, organizes, and hosts digitized cultural assets of Harlem’s place-based histories, prioritizing the wide-ranging preservation work of Harlem’s Black, African, and Afro-Caribbean communities, and facilitates access through the Living Digital Archive website. The Archive aims to actively resist colonial archival gatekeeping practices and celebrate expressive culture, organizing, and community-building efforts that transform, reclaim, and preserve the built environment and heritage of Harlem.
The Harlem Place Memory & Culture Archive was initiated by the PMCI in collaboration with Caribbean Center Africa Diaspora Institute (CCCADI), Save Harlem Now!, The Harlem Cultural Archives, Uptown Grand Central, and an expanding ecosystem of Harlem community partners and archive projects. The Harlem PMCA is an independently stewarded archive.
Our partners & affiliates
Thank you for your support
We’d like to acknowledge the institutional support we’ve received from the Place, Memory, and Culture Incubator at the Spitzer School of Architecture co-directed by Jerome Haferd and Marta Gutman, and the Mellon Foundation, which funded this initiative. We acknowledge jah elyse sayers, Lester Li, Aminata Diop, Mario Rubén Carrión, Lorenia Henriquez, Pedro Cruz Cruz, Jenna Vogel, Ornella Bonhomme, Mikaila Meurer, Ariadna Vazquez, Alfredo Maldonado, Camille Hall, Sean Weiss, and denisse andrade for their individual contributions.
Special thanks to our partners: Sabine Blaizin, Melody Capote, Claudette Brady, Valerie Bradley, Lynn Hendy, Glenn Hunter, Carey King, and Karen Taylor. We acknowledge this is not an exhaustive list and are grateful to the many hands that brought this project to life.