OUR COLLECTIVE MAP
Explore our map to see where our community is based and where our histories are from. Each point represents a place connected to someone in our community and the stories that shape who we are.
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STORY SPOTLIGHT
Kenya is Home
Kenya is where I was born and it's where the majority of my family still lives. I feel the most connected and regulated here, and it's because my body and spirit instinctively know that I'm home. While I spend most of my time in Nairobi when I'm here, I always find time to visit the ancestral land and farms on both sides of my family.
Atlanta, the hub of Black eduation
The birthplace of Morehouse College & Dr. MLK. Atlanta, GA is where I became aware of black consciousness and black family wealth. It is the center of High Black Education.
I Grew My Roots in Chicago
This city been my permanent residence for over 20 years. My love for this city runs so deep. It's where I became myself as an adult. It's where I put down professional roots, built a real community, and fell in love with the culture, architecture, people, sports, and it's 90 days of summer.
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The history of movement is ongoing. Continue following the path of the African Diaspora through these resources. Note: You are now exploring beyond FullCircle to external archives.
national archives
Trace the official records of movement and settlement.
IN MOTION AAME
View the visual history of the thirteen migrations that shaped the African Diaspora.
Enslaved.org
Archives and datasets about the names and identities of enslaved and freed individuals.
slavevoyages.org
Data about slave ships and their captured passengers.
The warmth of other suns
by Isabel Wilkerson, about the Great Migration of African Americans out of the Southern US from the early 1900s to about 1970.
Blues People
Blues People: Negro Music in White America is a non-fiction book on Afro-American music, was written by Amiri Baraka, under the pen name LeRoi Jones.
I am not your negro
2016 documentary about the outspoken writer James Baldwin, was directed by Haitian Raoul Peck.
gordon parks foundation photos
Repository of work by this Black photographer, musician and director, who documented African-American life from the 1940s to the 2000s.
Frequently Asked Questions
How can I get involved?
Please donate to support our work or contact us directly with ideas, questions and feedback through our interest form!
How do you define the various African Diasporas?
The world has seen many migrations over history, forced and voluntary. Descendants of enslaved Africans are one diaspora, spread mostly throughout the Caribbean and the Americas (including the USA). Other African diasporas include more recent, voluntary migrants and their offspring, who live all around the world.
How are FullCircle and KinFinity connected?
FullCircle, a 501 (c) 3 created in 2021, aims to digitally connect the global African diasporas, both culturally and as markets for goods and services. As a first step, we are creating a for-profit social benefit entity, FamilyCircle, to offer an app to be used by African-American families as they plan and document their family reunions. We seek donors for FullCircle and investors for FamilyCircle.
What was the inspiration?
As she wrote a bilingual blog about Rio de Janeiro’s urban issues, Julia Michaels became aware of the city’s African past. Rio received about 2 million of the 5 million enslaved Africans taken to Brazil. Thus it is the most important port in diaspora history (the future USA received 400,000 enslaved Africans, total). When Julia suggested a larger venue to a Rio museum founder, that founder made a bigger suggestion: connecting all the places in the world involved in enslaving and trafficking Africans, from the 15th to the 19th century.
In 2020, Julia mentioned this stirring idea to her old friend and Atlanta resident Mike Wittenstein, lamenting the impossibility of making it real during the pandemic. “Why not do this digitally?” asked Mike. Thus FullCircle was born and the two friends, who had studied Portuguese together in Rio de Janeiro in 1978, became co-founders. Karen Routt joined the team in 2022 and became Executive Director.
Who has FullCircle previously worked with?
FullCircle has co-hosted webinars with Brazil’s Museum of the Republic and exhibitions with Roots101. Click here to learn more about our past events.
Where is FullCircle based?
FullCircle is based in the USA. It intends to operate internationally, as the digital platform comes into existence.
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