AfroChesapeake is a culture.

AfroChesapeake is an identity.

AfroChesapeake is a people.

AfroChesapeake is a diaspora.

AfroChesapeake is a place.

AfroChesapeake is a living geography. It is both a physical region and a cultural ecosystem shaped by African American presence, resistance, and survival.

It spans the Chesapeake Bay (and beyond). With a vast watershed, stretching across Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, northeastern North Carolina, and parts of the Appalachian foothills.

AfroChesapeake is the intermingling of brackish waters and blood memory, where the living and the dead, the trees and the tide, the soil and the song, conspire in quiet rebellion against the death-making logic of empire.

It is a culture that persists beneath and beyond, subversively alive at the heart of an imperial core that has long sought to render it otherwise.

AfroChesapeake is a Black ecology, a fugitive landscape where the environment itself holds testimony to resistance.

We are relation. We are a proximity. We are reflected in a truth shared by Toni Morrison:

"all water has a perfect memory and is forever trying to get back to where it was."

We are a geography that refuses to be conquered.

Afro-Chesapeake culture is life-giving in a world that is anti-life.