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    • Rapport: Route naar Herstel
    • TBA gaat (tijdelijk) verhuizen!
    • TBA wint Stimuleringsprijs AFK!
    • Manifest voor Zwarte Emancipatie >
      • Anti-zwart racisme - actieonderzoek
    • Vacatures >
      • Open Call: Echoes of In*dependence
      • Controller / Financieel Ondersteuner
    • In de media >
      • Bekladding van pand vereniging Ons Suriname en The Black Archives is poging tot racistische intimidatie
      • ‘Geen wegen blokkeren maar bruggen bouwen’ - NUC / TBA Statement
    • Samenwerkingen / Collabs >
      • 1 juli vrij >
        • TBA x LUSH: Zwarte geschiedenis is Nederlandse geschiedenis
      • HZT x The Black Archives
      • Patta x The Black Archives
      • So So Lobi 2 Winne x Patta x TopNotch
    • Meest gestelde vragen
    • Kijk met ons mee!
  • Doneren
    • Wat willen wij met de donaties doen?
  • Archieven
    • Archieven
    • TBA Podcast
    • The Black Archives Bijlmer
    • De Huiswoud Collectie
    • De Philomena Essed collectie
    • De Heilbron Collectie
    • De Willemsen Collectie
    • De Corsten Collectie
    • All Power To The People! Reading List
  • Agenda
    • 14/06: 10 jaar The Black Archives
    • 26/06: Echoes of Independence: De nalatenschap van Congolese onafhankelijkheid
    • Events (Uit het verleden) >
      • 23/05: Women of African Independence
      • 18/05: Nakba Herdenking 2025
      • 15/05: 100 Years Malcolm X: His Legacy for Black and Muslim Communities
      • 04/05: Anton de Kom - 4 mei herdenking 2025
      • 24/04: Listening session: Sudanese Resistance Music
      • 10/04 Booklaunch: Verdronken vrijheid
      • 05/04 TBA Community Tour
      • 30/3: ‘Transition ceremony: CAPE x NL’
      • 18/03 Filmscreening: Reimagining Okanisi Perspectives
      • 07/03 Echoes of In*dependence: De nalatenschap van Ghanese Independence
      • De pen als wapen: Een avond over schrijvers Anton de Kom en Nele Mariam
      • 23/1: TBA X Africadelic: Patrice Lumumba Day '25
      • 13/12: Black Soil X The Black Archives X All Things Africa X HipHopHuis
      • 14/12: Decolonial Conversations
      • 30/11 Heritage Stories II - Echoes of the Past
      • 24/11: Casa di Cabral Conversa: “The People Are Our Mountains”
      • 3,9,23/11 Free Your Mind
      • 16/11 + 30/11 Heritage Stories - Echoes of the Past
      • 16/11 Heritage Stories I - Echoes of the Past
      • 15/11: 10 jaar KOZP: 10 jaar KOZP: een decennium tegen Zwarte Piet en racisme
      • 9/11 Free Your Mind II - Echoes of the Past
      • 3/11 Free Your Mind I - Echoes of the Past
      • 2/11: MuseumN8 - Black Joy: Justice Through Resistance​
      • 27/10: Casa di Cabral tour: Verhalen van Morabeza en de Kracht van Community
      • 18/10: Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free Gathering:
      • 28/9: Black Queer Archive
      • 16/9: Workshop Ankaa Heling - Dr. Joy DeGruy
      • 13/9: Opening - Pop-up Expo 'Casa di Cabral'
      • 3/8 Community Tour in The Black Archives en Archive Sale!
      • 1/7 TBA x Keti Koti festival 2024
      • 27/6: Congo is Bleeding -Community Gathering
      • 20/6: Lezing Black Heritage x Richenel Ansano x TBA
      • 12/6: Poetry workshop: Owning Your Story through Creative Writing & Performance
      • 9/6: Boekpresentatie 'De toekomst van het verleden'
      • 25/5: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation - Community Gathering
      • 05/05: Vrijheid voor wie..?
      • 25/4: Solidarity Sudan - Community Gathering
      • 19/4 - Film Screening: Black Joy
      • 4/4 - Presentatie rapport: Route naar Herstel
      • 25/3 -Workshop: Adrian Van Wyk
      • 6/3: Opening The Black Archives (Bijlmer)
      • 6/3: Embracing Ghanaian Independence Day
      • 22/2: Anton de Komdag 'Community Gathering' (try-out)
      • 16/12 Eindfeest expositie ‘Geen heling, zonder herstel’
      • 1/12 TBA Talk: Boekbespreking 'Bonaire, een koloniale zoutgeschiedenis'
      • 25/11 TBA Talk: ‘Kaási de rebellenleider’
      • 9/11 - Town hall sessie over herdenkingsjaar met NCDR
      • 19/6 Collegetour over Doorwerking Slavernijverleden
      • OOSTCAST: wandelroute & podcast
      • 10/5 Afrospirituality in the Everyday
      • 12/5 Books & Bites Festival: Eindfeest TBA
      • 22/4 BLACK_ women podcast
      • 9/3 Vrouwen van Suriname / Oema Foe Sranan
      • 12/3 Talk: Boto Banja met Raoul de Jong
      • 18/3 'Zwart Op Wit' Boekpresentatie
      • 3/2 Film Screening 'What The Soil Remembers'
      • 5/11 Museumnacht @ TBA
      • 21/10 Black Business Meeting 2022
      • 14/10: Hoe Dapper was Vrolik? Hoe Vrolik was Dapper?
      • Expo: Zwart Manifest @ OSCAM >
        • 4/3 2022: Finissage Zwart Manifest Expo
        • OPEN CALL: Manifesting the Manifesto
      • 30/9: Safe spacesessie met Jilllian Emanuels
      • 1/7 Keti Koti special @ Keti Koti festival Oosterpark
      • Erken 1 Juli Als Nationale Dag! #1juli
      • 2/7: DSGN-IN symposium: Pilot Bijlmer Dossier
      • 2/4/22: Publieksopening Zwartheid Onder Ogen Zien | Facing Blackness
      • 29/4/22: Booklaunch ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’'
      • 21/3 2022: Townhall Sessie NCDR Anti
      • Expositie: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
      • Open oproep: DSGN-IN - Bijlmer Dossier
      • TBA Muur van Zwarte & Surinaamse helden
      • All Power To The People Reading List
      • Reeds geweest >
        • 6/11 Museumnacht: Black Joy As A Form Of Resistance
        • 8/10: Black Professional Meeting 2021
        • Expo 'Surinaamse School' @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
        • TBA x Sonsbeek: Sound Waves of Resistance
        • Expo: Zwarte Beweging: #BlackLivesMatterNL
        • 25/9 Verzwegen Verzet: de zmv-beweging
        • 9/4 The Hidden History of The Moors @ Museum het Rembrandthuis
        • 19/1 101 jaar Ons Suriname festival
        • 15/10: Boekpresentatie Antonlogie >
          • Anton de Kom Schrijfwedstrijd
        • M1 (Dead Prez) - Bigger Than HipHop Q&A
        • 22/2 Memre Anton de Kom | Herinner Anton de Kom
        • Books & BBQ festival 2019
        • Keti Koti 2019 x The Black Archives
        • 'Books We Share, That Make Us Care'
        • 100 jaar vereniging Ons Suriname festival
        • 27/8 HIER. Zwart in Amsterdam
        • 45 Jaar Srefidensi online special
        • 18/10 Why Freedom Could't Wait
        • Lancering poster Tien keer meer geschiedenis
        • 30 Mei 1969 - Trinta di Mei
        • The Black Vote
        • Debate Venice Biennale: The Measurement of Presence
        • Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
        • Books & BBQ festival 2018
        • Reimagining the Black Body
        • Retelling Black Radicalism w/ Kehinde Andrews
        • Docu Daddy & the Warlord
        • Fort Nieuw Amsterdam: gedeeld cultureel erfgoed
        • Summer Reading Sessions on Black Radical Thought
        • 5/10 De Verzwegen Geschiedenis van Zwart Verzet
        • 13-18 mei: Angela Davis & Gina Dent
        • De Zwarte Lijst
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Anton de Kom
        • Lezing Philomena Essed
        • Gloria Wekker - Witte Onschuld
        • 1 juli: The Black Archives x Keti Koti: launch crowdfunding campagne!
        • Past exhibitions >
          • Exhibition: Facing Blackness
          • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
          • Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
        • Expo: Onze * Tori (2018)
  • Exposities
    • Pop-up Expositie 'Nobody is Free, Until Everybody is Free''
    • Pop-up expositie 'Nobody Is Free, Until Everybody Is Free' @ Anton de Komplein
    • Exhibition CAPE x NL @ Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
    • Exposities (Geweest) >
      • Pop-up Expositie 'Casa di Cabral'
      • Expositie 'Pop-up Expositie Dynamics of the Diaspora: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation
      • Expositie 'Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen' | Facing Blackness Den Haag
      • Geen Punt | Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel >
        • Geen Punt | Deel je mening
      • Expo: Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel
      • Expo: CAPE x Utrecht >
        • Column: South Africans also have the right to Dutch apologies and reparations for slavery
      • BLACK - the Expo
      • Expo Manspasi: een verbonden geschiedenis van strijd in Suriname en Nederland
      • Expo: Facing Blackness | Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen
      • Expositie: 100 jaar Surinamers in Nederland
      • Pop-up expo 'Ga Terug En Haal Het' met Clarice Gargard
      • Documenta 15 x TBA
      • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
      • Expo: Zwart & Revolutionair
  • Diensten
    • Rondleidingen
    • Ruimteverhuur
  • Webshop
    • Adviesrapport: Route Naar Herstel
    • Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel: Tentoonstellingscatalogus
    • Waldo Heilbron - De toekomst van het verleden
    • Anton de Kom - Wij Slaven van Suriname
    • Interwoven histories t-shirt
    • Poster '10x meer geschiedenis'
    • Antonlogie
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About us
    • The Black Archives will move (temporarily)
    • FAQ
    • Open Call: Echoes of In*dependence
  • Donate
  • Agenda
  • Archives
  • Exhibition
    • Pop-up exposition 'Nobody Is Free, Until Everybody Is Free' @ Anton de Komplein
    • Pop-up Expositie 'Nobody is Free, Until Everybody is Free''
    • Expositions (Past) >
      • Exhibition 'Pop-up Expositie Casa di Cabral
      • Exhibition CAPE x NL @ Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town >
        • Bradley van Sitters
      • No Full Stop | No Healing, Without Repair >
        • No Full Stop | Share your opinion
      • Exhibition: No Healing, Without Repair >
        • Translation | Exhibition: No Healing, Without Repair
  • Services
    • Guided Tours and Excursions
    • Space rental
  • Buy
    • Poster '10x more history'
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Over ons
    • Rapport: Route naar Herstel
    • TBA gaat (tijdelijk) verhuizen!
    • TBA wint Stimuleringsprijs AFK!
    • Manifest voor Zwarte Emancipatie >
      • Anti-zwart racisme - actieonderzoek
    • Vacatures >
      • Open Call: Echoes of In*dependence
      • Controller / Financieel Ondersteuner
    • In de media >
      • Bekladding van pand vereniging Ons Suriname en The Black Archives is poging tot racistische intimidatie
      • ‘Geen wegen blokkeren maar bruggen bouwen’ - NUC / TBA Statement
    • Samenwerkingen / Collabs >
      • 1 juli vrij >
        • TBA x LUSH: Zwarte geschiedenis is Nederlandse geschiedenis
      • HZT x The Black Archives
      • Patta x The Black Archives
      • So So Lobi 2 Winne x Patta x TopNotch
    • Meest gestelde vragen
    • Kijk met ons mee!
  • Doneren
    • Wat willen wij met de donaties doen?
  • Archieven
    • Archieven
    • TBA Podcast
    • The Black Archives Bijlmer
    • De Huiswoud Collectie
    • De Philomena Essed collectie
    • De Heilbron Collectie
    • De Willemsen Collectie
    • De Corsten Collectie
    • All Power To The People! Reading List
  • Agenda
    • 14/06: 10 jaar The Black Archives
    • 26/06: Echoes of Independence: De nalatenschap van Congolese onafhankelijkheid
    • Events (Uit het verleden) >
      • 23/05: Women of African Independence
      • 18/05: Nakba Herdenking 2025
      • 15/05: 100 Years Malcolm X: His Legacy for Black and Muslim Communities
      • 04/05: Anton de Kom - 4 mei herdenking 2025
      • 24/04: Listening session: Sudanese Resistance Music
      • 10/04 Booklaunch: Verdronken vrijheid
      • 05/04 TBA Community Tour
      • 30/3: ‘Transition ceremony: CAPE x NL’
      • 18/03 Filmscreening: Reimagining Okanisi Perspectives
      • 07/03 Echoes of In*dependence: De nalatenschap van Ghanese Independence
      • De pen als wapen: Een avond over schrijvers Anton de Kom en Nele Mariam
      • 23/1: TBA X Africadelic: Patrice Lumumba Day '25
      • 13/12: Black Soil X The Black Archives X All Things Africa X HipHopHuis
      • 14/12: Decolonial Conversations
      • 30/11 Heritage Stories II - Echoes of the Past
      • 24/11: Casa di Cabral Conversa: “The People Are Our Mountains”
      • 3,9,23/11 Free Your Mind
      • 16/11 + 30/11 Heritage Stories - Echoes of the Past
      • 16/11 Heritage Stories I - Echoes of the Past
      • 15/11: 10 jaar KOZP: 10 jaar KOZP: een decennium tegen Zwarte Piet en racisme
      • 9/11 Free Your Mind II - Echoes of the Past
      • 3/11 Free Your Mind I - Echoes of the Past
      • 2/11: MuseumN8 - Black Joy: Justice Through Resistance​
      • 27/10: Casa di Cabral tour: Verhalen van Morabeza en de Kracht van Community
      • 18/10: Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free Gathering:
      • 28/9: Black Queer Archive
      • 16/9: Workshop Ankaa Heling - Dr. Joy DeGruy
      • 13/9: Opening - Pop-up Expo 'Casa di Cabral'
      • 3/8 Community Tour in The Black Archives en Archive Sale!
      • 1/7 TBA x Keti Koti festival 2024
      • 27/6: Congo is Bleeding -Community Gathering
      • 20/6: Lezing Black Heritage x Richenel Ansano x TBA
      • 12/6: Poetry workshop: Owning Your Story through Creative Writing & Performance
      • 9/6: Boekpresentatie 'De toekomst van het verleden'
      • 25/5: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation - Community Gathering
      • 05/05: Vrijheid voor wie..?
      • 25/4: Solidarity Sudan - Community Gathering
      • 19/4 - Film Screening: Black Joy
      • 4/4 - Presentatie rapport: Route naar Herstel
      • 25/3 -Workshop: Adrian Van Wyk
      • 6/3: Opening The Black Archives (Bijlmer)
      • 6/3: Embracing Ghanaian Independence Day
      • 22/2: Anton de Komdag 'Community Gathering' (try-out)
      • 16/12 Eindfeest expositie ‘Geen heling, zonder herstel’
      • 1/12 TBA Talk: Boekbespreking 'Bonaire, een koloniale zoutgeschiedenis'
      • 25/11 TBA Talk: ‘Kaási de rebellenleider’
      • 9/11 - Town hall sessie over herdenkingsjaar met NCDR
      • 19/6 Collegetour over Doorwerking Slavernijverleden
      • OOSTCAST: wandelroute & podcast
      • 10/5 Afrospirituality in the Everyday
      • 12/5 Books & Bites Festival: Eindfeest TBA
      • 22/4 BLACK_ women podcast
      • 9/3 Vrouwen van Suriname / Oema Foe Sranan
      • 12/3 Talk: Boto Banja met Raoul de Jong
      • 18/3 'Zwart Op Wit' Boekpresentatie
      • 3/2 Film Screening 'What The Soil Remembers'
      • 5/11 Museumnacht @ TBA
      • 21/10 Black Business Meeting 2022
      • 14/10: Hoe Dapper was Vrolik? Hoe Vrolik was Dapper?
      • Expo: Zwart Manifest @ OSCAM >
        • 4/3 2022: Finissage Zwart Manifest Expo
        • OPEN CALL: Manifesting the Manifesto
      • 30/9: Safe spacesessie met Jilllian Emanuels
      • 1/7 Keti Koti special @ Keti Koti festival Oosterpark
      • Erken 1 Juli Als Nationale Dag! #1juli
      • 2/7: DSGN-IN symposium: Pilot Bijlmer Dossier
      • 2/4/22: Publieksopening Zwartheid Onder Ogen Zien | Facing Blackness
      • 29/4/22: Booklaunch ‘Afropean: Notes from Black Europe’'
      • 21/3 2022: Townhall Sessie NCDR Anti
      • Expositie: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
      • Open oproep: DSGN-IN - Bijlmer Dossier
      • TBA Muur van Zwarte & Surinaamse helden
      • All Power To The People Reading List
      • Reeds geweest >
        • 6/11 Museumnacht: Black Joy As A Form Of Resistance
        • 8/10: Black Professional Meeting 2021
        • Expo 'Surinaamse School' @ Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam
        • TBA x Sonsbeek: Sound Waves of Resistance
        • Expo: Zwarte Beweging: #BlackLivesMatterNL
        • 25/9 Verzwegen Verzet: de zmv-beweging
        • 9/4 The Hidden History of The Moors @ Museum het Rembrandthuis
        • 19/1 101 jaar Ons Suriname festival
        • 15/10: Boekpresentatie Antonlogie >
          • Anton de Kom Schrijfwedstrijd
        • M1 (Dead Prez) - Bigger Than HipHop Q&A
        • 22/2 Memre Anton de Kom | Herinner Anton de Kom
        • Books & BBQ festival 2019
        • Keti Koti 2019 x The Black Archives
        • 'Books We Share, That Make Us Care'
        • 100 jaar vereniging Ons Suriname festival
        • 27/8 HIER. Zwart in Amsterdam
        • 45 Jaar Srefidensi online special
        • 18/10 Why Freedom Could't Wait
        • Lancering poster Tien keer meer geschiedenis
        • 30 Mei 1969 - Trinta di Mei
        • The Black Vote
        • Debate Venice Biennale: The Measurement of Presence
        • Conversation with Kimberlé Crenshaw
        • Books & BBQ festival 2018
        • Reimagining the Black Body
        • Retelling Black Radicalism w/ Kehinde Andrews
        • Docu Daddy & the Warlord
        • Fort Nieuw Amsterdam: gedeeld cultureel erfgoed
        • Summer Reading Sessions on Black Radical Thought
        • 5/10 De Verzwegen Geschiedenis van Zwart Verzet
        • 13-18 mei: Angela Davis & Gina Dent
        • De Zwarte Lijst
        • Martin Luther King Jr.
        • Anton de Kom
        • Lezing Philomena Essed
        • Gloria Wekker - Witte Onschuld
        • 1 juli: The Black Archives x Keti Koti: launch crowdfunding campagne!
        • Past exhibitions >
          • Exhibition: Facing Blackness
          • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
          • Exhibition: W.E.B. Du Bois - Charting Black Lives
        • Expo: Onze * Tori (2018)
  • Exposities
    • Pop-up Expositie 'Nobody is Free, Until Everybody is Free''
    • Pop-up expositie 'Nobody Is Free, Until Everybody Is Free' @ Anton de Komplein
    • Exhibition CAPE x NL @ Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
    • Exposities (Geweest) >
      • Pop-up Expositie 'Casa di Cabral'
      • Expositie 'Pop-up Expositie Dynamics of the Diaspora: Exploring Ghanaian Migration & Emancipation
      • Expositie 'Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen' | Facing Blackness Den Haag
      • Geen Punt | Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel >
        • Geen Punt | Deel je mening
      • Expo: Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel
      • Expo: CAPE x Utrecht >
        • Column: South Africans also have the right to Dutch apologies and reparations for slavery
      • BLACK - the Expo
      • Expo Manspasi: een verbonden geschiedenis van strijd in Suriname en Nederland
      • Expo: Facing Blackness | Zwartheid Onder Ogen Komen
      • Expositie: 100 jaar Surinamers in Nederland
      • Pop-up expo 'Ga Terug En Haal Het' met Clarice Gargard
      • Documenta 15 x TBA
      • Photo exhibition 'Afropean' by Johny Pitts
      • Expo: Zwart & Revolutionair
  • Diensten
    • Rondleidingen
    • Ruimteverhuur
  • Webshop
    • Adviesrapport: Route Naar Herstel
    • Geen Heling, Zonder Herstel: Tentoonstellingscatalogus
    • Waldo Heilbron - De toekomst van het verleden
    • Anton de Kom - Wij Slaven van Suriname
    • Interwoven histories t-shirt
    • Poster '10x meer geschiedenis'
    • Antonlogie
  • Blog
  • Contact
  • Home
  • About us
    • The Black Archives will move (temporarily)
    • FAQ
    • Open Call: Echoes of In*dependence
  • Donate
  • Agenda
  • Archives
  • Exhibition
    • Pop-up exposition 'Nobody Is Free, Until Everybody Is Free' @ Anton de Komplein
    • Pop-up Expositie 'Nobody is Free, Until Everybody is Free''
    • Expositions (Past) >
      • Exhibition 'Pop-up Expositie Casa di Cabral
      • Exhibition CAPE x NL @ Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town >
        • Bradley van Sitters
      • No Full Stop | No Healing, Without Repair >
        • No Full Stop | Share your opinion
      • Exhibition: No Healing, Without Repair >
        • Translation | Exhibition: No Healing, Without Repair
  • Services
    • Guided Tours and Excursions
    • Space rental
  • Buy
    • Poster '10x more history'
  • Contact

About The Black Archives

The Black Archives is a unique historical archive for inspiring conversations, activities and literature from Black and other perspectives that are often overlooked elsewhere. The Black Archives documents the history of black emancipation movements and individuals in the Netherlands. The Black Archives is managed by the New Urban Collective.

The Black Archives consists of unique book collections, archives and artifacts that are the legacy of Black Dutch writers and scientists. The more than 10.000 books in the collections focus on racism and race issues, slavery and (the) colonization, gender and feminism, social sciences and development, Suriname, the Netherlands Antilles, South America, Africa and more.

As a result, The Black Archives provides book collections and literature which are not or little discussed in schools and within universities. The collections are intended as a start collection that can grow by gifts and collaborations with others. In this way, Black literature, knowledge and information is made accessible for study and research.

Based on the collections we develop exhibitions, public programmes and other educational and inspirational activities.

The Black Archives contains the following books collections and archives
  • Heilbron Collection
  • Huiswoud Collection
  • Willemsen Collection
  • Archives and books collection of Association Ons Suriname
Foto

Founders

The initiators of The Black Archives: Jessica de Abreu, Mitchell Esajas, Miguel Heilbron and Thiemo Heilbron
Photo's by Marcel Wogram (De Abreu, Esajas en M. Heilbron) en Liliane Smith (T. Heilbron)
In June 2015 the “New Urban Café” was opened, an inspiring place where people could get together to learn about the culture, history and literature from and about the Surinamese and African Diaspora. Almost 2.000 books, collected by the late sociologist Waldo Heilbron, were made available here. Waldo Heilbron was a sociologist at the University of Amsterdam who studied post-colonialism, the Trans-Atlantic slave trade and its legacy, racism and historiography.

In his book 'The Future of the Past: Reflections on Dutch History of Slavery and its Legacy ' (2006) Heilbron wrote:

"The trans-Atlantic slave trade and slavery left deep traces; in society and in the individual lives of many who are heirs of this history. In the public debate about the Dutch history of slavery, that rose at the end of the last century, it is this part of the history that is largely 'silenced past '. A lot of what is concealed is forgotten. (...) In deepening the knowledge about us ' concealed past ', new ways of thinking and research are needed. "

It was Heilbron's mission to develop new perspectives within the historiography and social sciences by contributing to alternative methodologies and critical perspectives.  Since June 2015, the collection has grown by several donations of books, literature and film material, and more than 1000 visitors attended our activities.

Since 2016, The Black Archives is located at a new location at Verenging Ons Suriname, which added several collections such as the Huiswouds collection, Willemsen Collection and book collections and archives of Verenging Ons Suriname.

The team

The Black Archives works together with a team to keep it an inspiring space. In addition to many volunteers, there is a team that build, maintain, advice and does community work with in the Black Archives: Aldaïr, Odile, Camille Parker and Levison.


About the organisation: New Urban Collective

New Urban Collective manages The Black Archives: the archives and bookcollections, en coördinate the activities.

New Urban Collective is a network initiated by students, young people and young professionals with a heart for the multicultural society. The Foundation has the mission to strengthen the socio-economic position of students, young people and young professionals of various cultural backgrounds, with special attention to the Afro-Caribbean Community and the African Diaspora: on the one hand, to strengthen the self-awareness and, on the other hand, the personal development. We organize activities, projects and advise organisations and individuals in the fields of education, labour market, diversity and human rights.

“It Takes A Village to Raise A Child”

The West African proverb: 'it takes a village to raise a child' also applies to the Dutch society. A strong network can help young people in their personal development and social mobility. N.U.C. aims to create a network in which young people can come into contact with inspiring individuals from different facets of society. Within this network knowledge transfer and culture are central, so that young people are encouraged and motivated to make full use of their potential.

The vision of the New Urban Collective is:

1. The 'New' : N.U.C. believes that every person can becomes a 'new' person through life as every day we can learn something new. By constantly developing ourselves, we grow and we can make any day a step closer to the realization of our goals. Therefore N.U.C. has a strong emphasis on the value of knowledge, education and self awareness. Knowledge and education open doors in society and self awareness allows us to take responsibility over our own lives. By stimulating one intellectually and show (social) efforts , N.U.C. aims a pool of successful bicultural people of the future.

2. The 'Urban' : the term urban refers to the life of the big city, this life is characterized by the complexity of diversity. N.U.C. recognizes differences between people because differences make us unique, but also recognizes the basic underlying agreement, our humanity. N.U.C. believes in a society in which there is room for differences and openness to cultural diversity.

3. The 'Collective' : the West-African proverb, 'it takes a village to raise a child' also applies to Dutch society. A strong network can help people in their personal development and social mobility. N.U.C. aims to create a network in which everyone comes into contact with inspiring individuals from different facets of society. Within this network knowledge transfer and culture are central, so that one is encouraged and motivated to make full use of their potential.

Our objectives are:

1. the promotion of education and strong labour market position of Afro-Dutch people
2. Supporting the self-awareness of our members to encourage them to make full use of their talent and potency
3. Promoting the professional knowledge and skills of our members
4. The provision of services on educational, social and economic area for our members
5. Maintaining and strengthening the ties between members and between members and the Dutch society
6. Maintaining a network in the interests of our members

Openingstijden/Opening Times

Woensdag/Wednesday 11.00 - 17.00 uur
Donderdag/Thursday 11.00 - 17.00 uur
Vrijdag/Friday 11.00 - 17.00 uur
Zaterdag/Saturday 11.00 - 17.00 uur

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Onze nieuwe locatie in Amsterdam Zuidoost is geopend. 
Neem contact op via de pagina contact voor rondleidingen buiten het programma.

We moved to South East Amsterdam.
Contact us via the page contact for tours outside our program.

(Rolstoel)toegankelijkheid/Accessibility

Momenteel beschikt The Black Archives niet over een speciale ingang en lift voor personen met een fysieke beperking en voor rolstoelgebruikers.  

At this moment, The Black Archives does not have a special entrance or lift for person of disability.