You Had Me at Black is a home for our stories, storytelling, and ourselves.
We first arrived in 2016 as a podcast and live story hour. The idea: pass a mic to everyday Black folks to tell their own stories in their own words. Over 1-million downloads and 5 cities later, we created new storytelling experience. Our award-winning series reimagined the art of oral tradition and pioneered a fresh format for the podcast industry.
Most importantly, we established a new standard for Black storytelling: one that prioritizes care, nuance, authenticity, and expansiveness.
Today, we're building something bigger: a community-owned, community-led, and community-funded home for Black storytelling. Media. Books and zines. In-person experiences. Black stories are a fortune. We're building the structure that treats them like one.
In this new era, we are guided by a sense of sacred self-worth, wayward imagination, and radical connection. It’s a future fueled by collective care, power and abundance. We’re all we got and we’re more than enough.
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