We’re building a living archive of Black Baltimore, and we’re inviting you to help shape it.

Whether you’ve called Baltimore home for generations or you just have a story to tell about this place—your experience adds depth, pride, and truth to the narrative we’re preserving.

This is your chance to represent your block, your family, your journey, and the communities that shaped you.

Why It Matters

When you speak, you carry forward the culture of Baltimore.  

When you share, you take your rightful place in history.  

When you reflect with pride, you give others permission to do the same.

Ready to represent?

Click below to schedule your recording and Be Part of the Story.

At the Bawdamore Preservation Society, we believe Baltimore’s power lives in its people—in the porch conversations, the block parties, the struggle, the resilience, and the joy. From Cherry Hill to Park Heights, Penn-North to Patterson Park, this city holds a thousand stories—and yours is one of them.

Ways to Share

- One-on-one interviews — Share your story in a guided, conversational setting  

- Family storytelling sessions — Record your legacy together across generations  

- Youth perspectives — Uplift the voices of young Baltimoreans  

- Mobile storytelling booth — Find us at community events and local landmarks