Our Story

Krak Teet is a nonprofit organization based in Savannah, Georgia. Inspired by Zora Neale Hurston, Dr. Charles Hoskins, and the Federal Writer’s Project, we asked ourselves: Who’s collecting our elders’ stories today? With no answer, we began interviewing elders over the age of 80 about life in the Low Country between 1920-1970. The struggles, the celebrations, the ordinary day-to-day, we ask about everything.

Then we began sharing those stories online and during in-person workshops, panels, and speaking engagements. Folk would share their own experiences and how they could relate. So we began traveling to see just how many more dots we could connect throughout the African diaspora. The foods, the music, the dance, the healing modalities, and spiritual practices, they were all so very similar. With this knowledge, we identified the foundation of work as #WeAllCousins.

Our proudest moments include people telling us that we inspired them to record their grandparents, children learning that their pronouncing “street” as “skreet” ain’t stupid but Geechee, and elders saying they read/heard something of ours that unlocked a memory they thought they’d long forgotten.