Not getting a house because of the way you look. Being stopped by the police because of the way you look. Being physically attacked because of the way you look.

If you never had any of these experiences, then there is a good chance that you are white.

The city of Amsterdam prides itself of being a home to more than 170 nationalities, but they clearly do not all have the same every day life realities.

Because institutional racism is still a huge problem in the Netherlands.

Only centuries after slavery, slave trading and colonialism, the recognition of these events in the Netherlands has finally started – but things are still moving rather slow. Too slow. Too many topics are still not discussed, too many Dutch people are not informed about their countries past, too many Black people in the Dutch history remain unseen and too many issues of today’s Black community are not adressed.

The Black Archives want to change that.

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