Black Liberation Archiving and Conservation Center

In 2025, Memorialize the Movement expanded its mission and transitioned to the Black Liberation Archiving and Conservation Center (BLACC). This shift reflects a broader organizational focus on Black memory work, protest archiving, and the development of community-centered frameworks for preservation beyond the initial mural collection. The name “Memorialize the Movement” was retained as the title of the mural archive, preserving its original identity while situating it within a broader context of Black memory work.

BLACC (Black Liberation Archiving and Conservation Center) is a Twin Cities-based memory justice organization dedicated to preserving, activating, and ethically stewarding Black protest art, community archives, and cultural memory. We currently steward over 1,000 murals and protest artifacts created during the Minneapolis Uprising of 2020 and beyond, which are housed in in the Memorialize the Movement (MTM) Archive. By providing space for youth, artists, and our Black community to heal, reflect, and learn, BLACC seeks to address the issues of police brutality, community safety, and representation for Black memory workers, while building local and regional frameworks for community-centered archiving.