Truth and Transformation uncovers forgotten stories, inviting healing, courage, and shared remembrance
What is Truth & Transformation?
What We Do
- Illuminate suppressed histories of racial violence, forced labor, and systemic exclusion
- Create memorials and educational tools that foster healing and awareness
- Mobilize policy and cultural change through community-led initiatives
- Connect with other communities through delegations that foster co-created strategies for justice
Forced Labor Memorialization
How What We Buy Impacts Global Human Rights
From Bellwood Quarry to the Chattahoochee Brick Company site, this effort exposes the violent legacy of convict leasing and honors the lives exploited in the name of progress. Through AR tools, public art, and civic education, we invite Atlantans to reflect, remember, and demand better from our future.
Focus Areas
- Bellwood Quarry Memorial
- Forced Labor Westside Memorial
- Chattahoochee Brick Company Memorial (in partnership with the City of Atlanta)
Racial Terror Awareness
The history of racial terror in Atlanta is not distant; it’s deliberate and still echoing.
Through educational campaigns, public art, and commemorations, we uncover histories that have been buried for too long, from the 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre to the lynchings and attacks that shaped our city’s legacy of racial inequity.
Focus Areas
- 1906 Atlanta Race Massacre Mural
- 1906 Race Massacre Curriculum for Schools
Featured Projects
The Featured Projects showcase how communities are reclaiming history and shaping a more just future. From the Truth-Telling Fellowship, which uplifts grassroots historians and artists preserving suppressed narratives, to the National Summit on Transformative Memorialization, Unturning the Stones, these initiatives turn remembrance into a catalyst for change. Together, they model how truth can inspire action and repair.
Truth-Telling Fellowship
National Summit on Transformative Memorialization – “Unturning the Stones”
How to Participate
This work belongs to all of us. Here's how to get involved:
Sponsor
Support a program, mural, or fellowship to expand our reach.
Host
Bring Truth & Transformation events to your school, company, or community.
Attend
Join upcoming events and deepen your understanding.
Volunteer
Help build a memorial, document history, or support public sessions.
Resources
Coming soon: The Truth + Transformation Resource Hub, your guide for connecting truth-telling to real, lasting change.
“At the heart of truth-telling and remembrance work is the power of community.”
— Darrin Sims, Director of Truth + Transformation