A lost archive of Black history — Harvard Gazette

A lost archive of Black history — Harvard Gazette

Arts & Culture A lost archive of Black history 25 years after landmark photography book, Deborah Willis is still scouring albums, attics, cabinets, cards to fill in the record Jacob Sweet Harvard Staff Writer April 28, 2026 5 min read Deborah Willis. Photos by Niles Singer/Harvard Staff Photographer Deborah Willis’ career as a photographer, curator, and historian began with a question she had as a …

Bringing lost Black communities back to life in 3D: reviving the history of erased neighborhoods

A sign designates Poindexter Village’s future location, currently the site of apartment buildings. Credit: Yusuke Kita | Lantern Reporter In the space where a community once lived, only fragments of memory remain. At Ohio State, those fragments are being transformed into immersive 3D landscapes that restore depth to places long erased from the map. The Ghost Neighborhoods Project by the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis, or CURA, is a digit…