A living record. A shared responsibility.
Black lived experience deserves to be heard in full.
TryLivingWhileBlack is trusted infrastructure for preserving verified first-person Black lived experience and supporting education and practical anti-racism tools.
The purpose
Preserve what happened. Make room for what can change.
Stories can help people recognize how racism is experienced and understood in daily life. The archive is intended to support learning and practical anti-racism work while keeping evidence, attribution, and the storyteller’s choices in view.
A careful path to publication
Each decision has its own place.
Finding a possible story is only a beginning. Discovery, verification, consent, editorial review, approval, publication, and withdrawal are separate decisions.
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Discovery
Potential material is a lead for human review. A candidate stays private and is not counted as a verified story.
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Verification
Editors record source and qualification evidence. A candidate is not described as verified until evidence is reviewed and recorded.
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Rights and consent
Permission, consent, scope, and any time limit must be explicitly reviewed. Consent is never inferred from discovery or source availability.
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Privacy and editorial review
Privacy and editorial decisions are documented independently. Approval does not publish a story by itself.
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Publication
A separate human action can publish a story only while every verification and permission requirement remains current.
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Withdrawal
Permission can be withdrawn. A withdrawn story leaves public view, while a private audit record preserves the decision.
Context matters
Describe harm with care.
Some accounts describe direct racism. Others describe adjacent or contributing racialized harm. When a classification is used, it is a manual editorial label supported by evidence—not an inference from a person’s identity, a keyword, or a story’s tone.
A curated archive cannot represent every experience and does not claim to be exhaustive.
Read with context