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(Un)Known Project is a collaborative initiative co-founded by Hannah Drake and Josh Miller to unearth and honor the names and stories of enslaved Black people in America and the global African diaspora 👣

(Un)Known Project is looking for volunteers who want to make a difference and support our mission. By volunteering, you ...
10/15/2026

(Un)Known Project is looking for volunteers who want to make a difference and support our mission. By volunteering, you help care for a space that preserves history, encourages reflection, and keeps important stories alive for generations to come. ⁣
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Whether you have a little time or a lot to give, we’d love to have you involved. ⁣
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Learn more about volunteer opportunities and sign up through the link in our comments.

We’re excited to share a first look at the renderings for the (Un)Known Project Sculpture Park - a vision that is moving...
10/14/2026

We’re excited to share a first look at the renderings for the (Un)Known Project Sculpture Park - a vision that is moving closer to reality thanks to the investment and support of many of you!

Along Louisville’s Ohio River, this sacred space is being created to honor the names and stories of enslaved Black people, hold space for reflection and remembrance, and invite each of us to consider our responsibility to the histories we inherit and the future we help shape.

The Sculpture Park builds upon the permanent installations already present at the site, including On the Banks of Freedom and In Our Elders’ Footprints. Later this year, we look forward to unveiling a new America 250 installation by artist Ellex Swavoni, adding another chapter to the stories held within this landscape.

The renderings offer a glimpse of what the completed park can become: a welcoming public space where art, history, landscape, and community come together. With new sculptures, pathways, seating, signage, trees, and other improvements, we anticipate completing the Sculpture Park in 2027.

We are all stewards of this space.

As we enter the final stages of bringing the Sculpture Park to fruition, we invite you to be part of its completion. Your investment will help transform these renderings into a permanent public space for remembrance, learning, reflection, and connection.

Learn more and contribute - 🔗 in Comments!

10/12/2026

Gotten your copy of our We the People Anthology? We just dropped off more copies at Carmichael's Bookstore 📚 in Louisville!

Shop local in-store and online through their website! Link in bio

Marc Murphy Hannah Drake Josh Miller Beth Moore

10/10/2026

John A. Powell talks about creating belonging without othering with Sadiqa Reynolds at Othering & Belonging Institute conference 2026 in Louisville

Today during Othering & Belonging Institute conference, John A. Powell talked about how we have to work at three levels ...
10/09/2026

Today during Othering & Belonging Institute conference, John A. Powell talked about how we have to work at three levels - global, national and local. “What’s at stake is human life as we know it,” he said during his conversation with Sadiqa Reynolds. More from their timely and necessary conversation to come!

Photos by Josh Miller

Ready for our walking tour with Othering & Belonging Institute attendees in Louisville 👣
10/08/2026

Ready for our walking tour with Othering & Belonging Institute attendees in Louisville 👣

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Louisville to Liberty: The Blackburns’ Journey at the Frazier Kentucky History M...
10/07/2026

Thank you to everyone who joined us for Louisville to Liberty: The Blackburns’ Journey at the Frazier Kentucky History Museum as we honored the extraordinary story of freedom seekers Lucie and Thornton Blackburn.

About the exhibit: In the afternoon of July 3, 1831, Thornton and Lucie Blackburn made a daring escape from their enslavers in Louisville, Kentucky, eventually making it to Toronto, Canada. Their story was nearly forgotten until archaeologists discovered their home while working in a school yard. Site director Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost spent more than 20 years piecing together Thornton and Lucie’s story. From her research, Dr. Smardz Frost wrote I’ve Got a Home in Glory Land: A Lost Tale of the Underground Railroad. It is the first birth to death biography of a freedom-seeking couple published since the Civil War.

In Louisville to Liberty: The Blackburns’ Journey, visitors will learn more about Thornton and Lucie Blackburn and their journey to freedom. For the first time ever displayed in the United States, the exhibition will include objects belonging to Thornton and Lucie that were uncovered in the archaeological excavation. It was necessary for Thornton and Lucie to leave Louisville to escape bo***ge. Louisville to Liberty: The Blackburns’ Journey welcomes their story back to Kentucky.

The event featured a presentation by Dr. Karolyn Smardz Frost, and panel discussion facilitated by Rachel Platt of the Frazier with Lamont Collins of Roots 101 AA Museum and (Un)Known Project co-founders Hannah Drake and Josh Miller.

We invite you to keep learning, asking questions, sharing their story, and uncovering the histories that surround us. These stories live on when we choose to carry them forward.

The exhibit featuring artifacts from where Lucie and Thornton lived in Canada, travel reflections from our journey to Toronto, and more, will be on display at the Frazier through July 4, 2027.

Photos courtesy of Frazier Kentucky History Museum

10/06/2026

We’re excited to welcome attendees of the Othering & Belonging Institute 2026 conference to Louisville and can’t wait for Thursday’s walking tour, which we’re leading with Roots 101 AA Museum

Thanks to 21c Museum Hotel Louisville and  for inviting us into the galleries for a We The People Anthology reading, dis...
10/04/2026

Thanks to 21c Museum Hotel Louisville and for inviting us into the galleries for a We The People Anthology reading, discussion and book signing as part of Fall Of Freedom 📕

With readings from Dionne Griffiths, Beth Moore and Marc Murphy, and discussion moderated by We The People co-editor Josh Miller, we loved hearing how the contributors approached their pieces and the topic, and questions and feedback from the audience!

We’ll share some video clips soon ✨

Artists And Afros is underway at Norton Healthcare SL Center - come out and support over 100 artists from the region  an...
10/04/2026

Artists And Afros is underway at Norton Healthcare SL Center - come out and support over 100 artists from the region and across the globe!

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