
Meet the Creatives Documenting Broward’s Black History | Art Loft
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HAC, is a multimedia collective dedicated to preserving Black Black history, art, and culture.
History. Art. Culture., also known as HAC, is a multimedia collective dedicated to preserving Black history, art, and culture in Broward County through storytelling rooted in community.
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Meet the Creatives Documenting Broward’s Black History | Art Loft
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History. Art. Culture., also known as HAC, is a multimedia collective dedicated to preserving Black history, art, and culture in Broward County through storytelling rooted in community.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorshipMy name is Emmanuel George.
People# know me as an oral historian, a community archivist, but I# see myself as a storyteller.
This is a HAC Production.
You already know.
HAC is multimedia, you know, so we do videography,# documentary style storytelling.
We have our YouTube channel, The Hub 954.
And where it's# been compared to that of like a Vice News and PBS where we tell stories.
We also do physical# media 'cause we are very intergenerational.
So we have something for our elders as well too, who are# not really Instagram savvy or not really on social media like that.
So we have our HAC magazine.
We# have our Broward Black History Hub, collectible flashcards.
We are also working on a book as# well too, Broward Chronicles a retrospective, which is gonna be a collaboration between Shop# by Leather and myself using his photography of the landmarks he's covered and the research I've# done on people and places in Broward County.
We do oral histories, but we do it in a documentary# style running gun type way of highlighting people in a very candid way.
The Hub is something that# is telling intergenerational stories in black communities in Broward County.
We recently did# an episode of Carver Ranches and we're working on Hallendale next.
We also did Fort Lauderdale,# Pompano and Liberia.
The Motor Club is also where we highlight the car culture that's down# here.
Tell us about your earliest experiences in car culture.
The car culture is part of Broward# stories.
The history, the rich history is part of our stories of course.
The certain kind of cars,# a 1971 to a 1976 Chevrolet Caprice or a Chevrolet Impala.
You had the hard tops and you had the# Verts.
The Verts are more so convertibles just the top is off and everything like that.
What we seen# was just another part of the car culture.
'Cause you know, you have the tuners, which is like the# Hondas, the Acura's kind of like Fast and Furious type cars.
Like back in the day when they were# having these custom Hondas and they would like race and stuff like that.
That's another part of# our story.
When we look at the Beamer culture, the bike culture, the ATVs, the dirt bikes.# Motor Club is us to like, we like to highlight all of the car culture.
We're showing that like# we gotta break the stereotypes.
When people see these car cultures, they think of gangs, they# think of things that's negative.
A lot of times it's folks who just like cars.
They get together# over their interest of cars.
They'll get together, have a barbecue or get together at a park and then# they'll all ride out together.
That's part of our culture.
All right.
Emmanuel, David, Samuel, we're# the three wise men.
All our names are biblical, which is really cool.
And we came together.
We've# been doing this grassroots.
Myself and Samuel, we were working together for a while,# collaborating on a lot of things, and then David came by Shop by Leather.
His Instagram page# is similar to mine where we archive and document history.
He does it through the photography.
I do# it through the research and data point.
And so it was only right that we collaborated and we did a# 29 days of black Broward history stash and grab.
So what I did was I went around# town and I hid money, merchandise, all kind of cool stuff for the# community and whoever found it, they find it and it was just something to# get the people involved as in bringing unity.
And then all these people would come out and# it was like a scavenger hunt.
It was called a stash and grab.
So that was our first actual# project that we did together.
It got so much great feedback that we said, "Hey man, we have# to do something else and work together closely."
We were like we want to actually stem away from# Instagram and let's actually create a platform, something that will hold longevity.
And we did, we started history, art and# culture and history has it.
Here we a.. We're all three creative minds and we# add to each other.
Where none of us have a big ego.
We're all empathetic# to each other and we listen to each other's ideas and we just go and do.# That's the thing, we're just doers.
We're born and raised here.
So we know# the culture, we know what people enjoy out here.
And honestly we are# the culture.
This is our city, this is our county.
So we present it# in such a good light and they love it.
It goes back to my dad.
My dad was very# big in history growing up and he taught me a lot of things that the schools# weren't really teaching me.
And then being in Broward County, I was like,# I always wanted to know more about my local black history.
And that's how I ended# up getting in touch with Dr.
Kitty Oliver who wrote the book "Race and Change in Hollywood,# Florida."
And she's been my mentor ever since.
Perfect brother.
HAC is this multimedia platform# where we preserve black roots, black culture.
Whether it's cars, fashion, media, lifestyle,# just about anything.
That's all what we're about.
Preserving, putting smiles on people's# faces and just making a better world day by day.
We actually love doing what we do.
It's not about# the money, it's about the people in the community.
We pride ourself in being preservationists.
We're all one big happy family and a# team that works collectively.
We're archivists.
We preserve and document the# history 'cause we know not all of us is gonna be here forever.
So we wanna make sure that we# capture this moment in time so that the next 30, 40, 50 years from now that the next# generation can be able to see and know what was once here.
'Cause we're# doing that for the past right now and we're capturing these moments now and# it's gonna be something similar for those who are gonna be able to pick up# where we left off 30, 40 years from now.
We out.
All right.
This is for y'all.
You know this ain't for us.
This is for when we long# gone that our culture 40 on.
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