The WW9 Atlas, every layer

Every point on the WW9 Atlas, by layer, in plain pages you can read and search. Each one opens on the map.

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Business

• Black business todayMajor companies, banks and founders of our time · 352 points
• Black businessDistricts, banks, towns, and where they were burned · 34 points

Culture

• ActorsActors and comedians, where they're from, with clips · 2,500 points
• Carnival and Mardi GrasEach country's festival, with media · 427 points
• Major concertsThe shows that moved the people · 73 points
• BET and our entertainment eventsAwards, classics, festivals, homecomings and shows · 13 points
• Venues, labels and festivalsApollo to Wattstax, Stax to Def Jam · 45 points
• FilmsBlack films, placed where filmed or set · 198 points
• ArtistsBlues to hip hop, gospel to Black country: where they're from · 2,773 points
• Hip hop beefs and eventsRivalries, shootings, turning points · 71 points
• Black mediaNewspapers, magazines, stations · 91 points
• Songs and albumsRelease dates, placed where recorded · 3,034 points

Disasters

• Great disasters before the recordsHurricanes and earthquakes from the 1500s to the 1800s · 11 points
• EarthquakesMagnitude 6.5+ across the Americas since 1900, plus the great ones before · 1,516 points
• HurricanesEvery hurricane landfall on NOAA's record since 1851, plus the great storms before · 681 points
• TornadoesEvery F4-F5 / EF4-EF5 since 1950, and the deadliest · 676 points

Invention and science

• Aircraft, helicopters and rocketsModels by first flight, version to version · 1,471 points
• New drugs (FDA record)Every new-molecule drug the FDA approved, by date, at the company that made it · 981 points
• Inventions and patentsOur inventors' patents and the timeline of invention · 1,048 points
• Medicine and drugsMedical firsts, drugs by year of discovery, vaccines, and the abuses on record · 120 points
• Science and discoveryDiscoveries in physics, chemistry and astronomy, with who and where · 153 points
• Automobiles and machinesCar, truck, train and motorcycle models, version to version · 1,299 points

Law and movement

• Court casesDred Scott to birthright citizenship: the rulings over our people, state and federal · 41 points
• Pushed out: displacementOur neighborhoods priced out, cut by highways and flipped · 12 points
• The drug warIts crimes from 1914 to now, and what it did to our communities · 29 points
• Immigration and enforcementPorts, laws and great moves, through the 2025-26 raids, troops and detention · 39 points
• Race laws by stateJim Crow examples, at each capitol · 38 points
• Laws and rulingsFrom the Code Noir to now · 38 points
• Lynching, through nowThe record from the 1800s to cases families still dispute · 690 points
• NAACP: 1905 to nowNiagara to the travel advisories: the key data points · 16 points
• Whistleblowers and researchersCooper, Cokely, Webb, Assange, Snowden and more, with their books and works · 17 points

Learning and faith

• Black churchesHistoric congregations by type: AME, AME Zion, CME, Baptist, COGIC, temples and mosques · 342 points
• Black collegesHBCUs, founded when and where · 119 points

Old world buildings

• World's fair buildingsClaimed build dates, tested · 240 points

Protest and uprising

• George Floyd protests, 2020Every city on the record, US and abroad · 644 points
• Uprisings, marches and riotsStono to the Million Man March to now · 324 points

Public life

• Public figuresActivists, faith leaders, scientists, inventors, journalists · 2,500 points
• Freemasons on recordPrince Hall and other publicly known Masons, and their lodges · 48 points
• InfluencersYouTubers, podcasters, radio and internet voices in our community · 85 points
• LodgesPrince Hall temples and our fraternal orders' halls · 19 points
• Our organizationsNOI, Moorish Science, Hebrew Israelites, Panthers, Divine Nine, civil rights, and Jonestown on record · 22 points
• Politicians and judgesRepresentatives, senators, mayors, judges: where they're from · 2,500 points

Sky

• ObservatoriesModern telescopes of the Americas · 1,052 points
• Sky-watching sitesOld alignments to sun and stars · 145 points

Sports

• The gamesSuper Bowls, World Series, Finals, Negro leagues, title fights: who played, who won, where · 622 points
• Athletes and teamsNegro leagues to now: where they're from, with highlights · 3,000 points

Storylines

• Prester JohnThe priest-king of the Indies, from Rome to Ethiopia to Chicora · 13 points

Street

• GangsWhere groups formed, as recorded · 61 points
• Street leaders on recordGang founders and kingpins, Hoover to Big Meech · 15 points

The record

• Arabic in the AmericasCaptives who wrote in Arabic · 9 points
• Military basesModern posts on old ground · 101 points
• Captive routesWhere the held were sent · 113 points
• Forts and war groundAyiti to the frontier · 336 points
• Same groundWhere native towns and Black towns meet · 28 points
• Experiments and harmPlaces of record · 27 points
• LouisianaPosts, captives and maroons on the river · 46 points
• Copper, gold, mercuryMetals of the land · 19 points
• Mounds and sacred sitesEarthworks, plazas, rock art · 323 points
• Sky, flight and fireEarly flight on record · 48 points
• Southeast townsThe land's own towns, by their own names · 49 points
• Old roads of the landWhat our people carried and traded · 101 points

Towns of the land

• Black towns and freedmen's townsBuilt and governed by our own · 49 points
• Land given, land takenFreedpeople's land, and how it left their hands · 10 points
• Destroyed, burned, floodedSolid: on record. Ring: claim, needs deep research · 407 points
• Maroon towns, quilombos, palenquesFree towns and resistance, the Americas over · 171 points
• Native townsTowns, pueblos and villages of the land · 537 points

Treaties and our writings

• TreatiesSigned with the nations, where they were signed · 99 points
• Native writingsBooks and writings by our own · 466 points