From Boley to Blackdom, Rosewood to Seneca Village - All Black Towns is a creative universe built on the true history of America's Black towns and neighborhoods. Every town is real, and every story really happened - told first in song, and growing into film, story, and study.
Explore the towns Hear the musicThriving Black municipalities, districts, and settlements - built from nothing after Emancipation, many destroyed by violence, policy, or "progress." Each one gets its name sung back into history.
Blackdom, founded by Frank Boyer and Ella Louise McGruder, was New Mexico's first Black town, an all-Black homesteader township on the high desert plains. The townsite stood empty by 1921, its foundations left in the des…
Boley, founded in 1903, became one of the most prominent of Oklahoma's more than 50 all-Black towns, a self-governing Black municipality in the Jim Crow era. Incorporated in 1905, it held banks, schools, and its own elec…
Nicodemus, founded in 1877 in Graham County by Exodusters from Kentucky, is the oldest surviving Black town west of the Mississippi. The Nicodemus Town Company recruited its settlers; today it is a National Historic Site…
Rosewood was a Levy County town where Black families owned land, churches, and businesses. A white mob destroyed it in January 1923, and it was never rebuilt. In 1994 Florida paid reparations to survivors, a first for a …
Seneca Village was a free Black settlement in what is now Central Park, from about 1825 to 1857. New York seized and demolished it by eminent domain for the park. Land ownership there let some Black men meet the state's …
Abila Station was an early-1900s Black settlement and Pacific Electric stop on the Long Beach line, promoted as a real-estate opportunity near Los Angeles. The vanished rail stop was later absorbed into Los Angeles.
120 original songs and counting - each written for a specific town, carrying its history in the lyrics. Human-written words, composed with AI instruments, sung so the names are never forgotten.
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