Since 2006, Voices That Guide Us has published over 2,000 video interviews, published weekly, documenting individuals, places, and historical moments within African American heritage. The collection includes Q&A with African Americans and Latinx, Indigenous, Asian, and European individuals whose experiences factually intersect with the Africana experience, illuminating these cultural connections.
Voices That Guide Us enriches diverse experiences and clarifies the depth of African American life. For classroom subjects, explore VTGU through activism, business, music, literature, politics, medicine, law, and more. For African American Registry Members, these video archives (2006-2021) are additionally available.
The Lighthouse podcast:
The Lighthouse is a monthly audio series featuring interviews and lectures. It includes elders, professionals, young people, and others invested in our community. It was conceived as a learning tool about the African and African diaspora experience.
The Lighthouse Podcast uniquely uses the audio “Theater of the Mind” to immerse listeners in the lived experience of Blackness.
- Serve as a voice for our views, advice, affirmations, and critiques.
- Enhance existing video content featured on our website.
- Support the oral traditions that are a hallmark of African people.
Membership/archives:
Membership with the African American Registry costs $50.00 annually. Members get UN and PW access to our VTGU video (including our ‘Your Community’ series, the Journal Of The Registry (white paper), and the Podcast (NPR, Code Switch, Say It Plain, NAACP, and Arts Of Africa) Archives). These items date back to 2006 and run through 2021, and are added each year to cover up to five years to the present.