A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland

A People's Archive of Police Violence in Cleveland is a local community created digital archive created in 2015 in response to the Killing of Tamir Rice. The archive documents community experiences not expressed in news, government, and police narratives. The archive uses the Omeka platform for community members to submit their stories.{{Cite book |last1=Noiret |first1=Serge |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SIlnEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+People's+Archive+of+Police+Violence%22&pg=PA158 |title=Handbook of Digital Public History |last2=Tebeau |first2=Mark |last3=Zaagsma |first3=Gerben |date=2022-04-04 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |isbn=978-3-11-043029-5 |language=en}}:158

The founders tied the project to healing from state violence. The directors compared the project to the tradition of archival activism in South Africa.:364 The archive features photographs and oral testimony.{{Cite book |last=Bastian |first=Jeannette A. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gN6zEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+People's+Archive+of+Police+Violence%22&pg=PT66 |title=Archiving Cultures: Heritage, community and the making of records and memory |date=2023-03-29 |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=978-1-000-88905-5 |language=en}} Archivist Jarret M. Drake says "Archives have never been neutral."{{Cite book |last1=Jha |first1=Sonora |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FoI6DwAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+People's+Archive+of+Police+Violence%22&pg=PT83 |title=New Feminisms in South Asian Social Media, Film, and Literature: Disrupting the Discourse |last2=Kurian |first2=Alka |date=2017-10-18 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-21077-1 |language=en}} Communal archives seek to return historical cultivation from centralized institutions to local communities{{Cite book |last=Heller |first=Michael C. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LjvcEAAAQBAJ&dq=%22A+People's+Archive+of+Police+Violence%22&pg=PA114 |title=Just Beyond Listening: Essays of Sonic Encounter |date=2023-11-14 |publisher=Univ of California Press |isbn=978-0-520-97586-6 |language=en}} and dismantle assumptions of gender, race, and ability.{{Cite book |last1=Frings-Hessami |first1=Viviane |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ffWVEAAAQBAJ&dq=dismantle+assumptions+of+gender,+race,+and+ability&pg=PA21 |title=Archives in a Changing Climate - Part I & Part II |last2=Foscarini |first2=Fiorella |date=2022-10-12 |publisher=Springer Nature |isbn=978-3-031-19289-0 |language=en}}

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