Chenoa Baker standing in front of some Allen Rohan Crite works on display at the Boston Athenaeum. (Jesse Costa/WBUR)Filmed by WQED Pittsburgh
Oct 6, 2024
Featuring Chenoa Baker
June 2023 Cohort
Independent curator and writer Chenoa Baker has a picture of her great-great-grandparents. It’s a precious item for her and many other Black Americans — photographic evidence of ancestors can be rare.
“It’s my great-great-grandfather sitting down. He’s wearing a suit, darker skin, Black man,” Baker described. “Then you have my great-great-grandmother, who’s actually standing, and she’s wearing this hat and you can see how long her hair is and it’s braided down her back.”