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"Krak Teet" is Geechee and means "to speak."

#WeAllCousins

#WeAllCousins

Wherever you go in this world, you’ll find pieces of your culture. Might find it in the food, dance, spirituality, artwork, or language. These similarities are our connections, and we discover ’em through our stories/memories. Put all of our grandmothers in the same room and you’ll see exactly what we’re talking ’bout.

That’s why we record stories.

When we’re krakin teet with our cousins across the globe and sharing our memories with each other, we get tools to free ourselves from the systems and beliefs that got all of us sick and tired. 

In order for it to work though, we gotta give ourselves and each other space to show up as our colorfully cultural selves without shame or judgement. 

Our Impact

Our Impact

Between 2016-2018, more than 20 elders over the age of 80 were interviewed for Krak Teet (the book). Only two of 'em are still living. But because we recorded so many of their memories, their wisdoms ain't completely gone. They're shared in our posts, videos, and workshops. We also use the stories to teach kids how to become storygatherers. So as much fun as we having doing this, we also making a major impact.
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#KrakTeet4Kids

#KrakTeet4Kids

workshops + camps
We interview elders, read and write in Geechee, learn how We All Cousins, preserve the culture, and have a whole lotta fun doing it!

Class in session, but this ain't nothing like school.

THE BOOK

The first-hand accounts in this book are transcribed directly from the grandchildren of the enslaved who laid the city’s treasured cobblestone roads and introduced its famous red rice and deviled crabs. Those who lived through what can be considered the country’s second wave of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.

Krak Teet catalogs stories of struggle—Ms. Madie’s family of sharecroppers fleeing after her father sold a pig without permission, Mr. Roosevelt stuffing his mother’s stab wounds with cobweb to stop the bleeding, and Ms. Florie marching Broughton Street twice a day to protest segregation—alongside stories of success—Queen Elizabeth Butler becoming Savannah’s first black woman to own a car, Ms. Sadie making over $500 a week running numbers, and the city’s desegregation eight months before the Civil Rights Act passed.

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