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The Black Art Library
The Black Art Library is self-described as a collection of books and other art history ephemera on Black visual art intended to be an educational resource to share within the Black community and beyond. The library navigates through pop-ups and digitally to bring awareness to and highlight the forgotten works and labor of visual cultural workers.
General Baker Institute Library
The General Baker Institute Library is a community library and reading space building on the legacy of Detroit labor organizer General Gordon Baker Jr.’s lifelong work. Inspired by Baker’s co-founding of Detroit and Hamtramack’s respective Revolutionary Union Movements (RUMs) movement of the late 1960s, the GBIL is focused on Black labor knowledge centering labor forward and anticapitalist works to increase political education amongst working class Black Detroiters. GBIL is a hidden gem located on Detroit’s Westside in the Pilgrim Village neighborhood.
The Free Black Women’s Library- Detroit
The Free Black Women’s Library Detroit is one of the five branches of TFBWL which is self-described broadly as a social art project. Detroit FBWL is a book bike, trading/borrowing library aimed and centering Black women and femme authors. In existence since 2019, this book project and community service hosts pop-up swaps/lending/readings at community events, community spaces, and Metro-Detroit small businesses, in an effort to build radical collaboration, celebrating the brilliance of Black women/femme authors and readers at no costs to the community.
Nine Miles to Detroit City Hall
A photograph depicting a sign on the northwest side of Mack Avenue reading "9 Miles to Detroit City Hall."
Neon sign promoting Fisher Body
A neon sign sits atop an industrial building in Detroit, Michigan promoting Fisher Body, a popular maker of auto bodies and chassis.
WPA Workers: Your Credit is Good Here
A rent-to-own store with a neon sign in the window, advertising available credit to workers employed with the Works Progress Administration (WPA).
Noble Pianos Advertisement
A sign advertising Noble pianos that reads, "You Save $100.00 When You Buy a Noble from Factory to You, 903 Grand River Av. 1216 Gratiot." The sign is attached to the gate of a home.