Join the BAM Family Tree Historical Foundation and help preserve the stories, sounds, and lineages of Black American music 🎵. Your membership supports exhibitions, archival projects, and educational programs that honor the artists who shaped our cultural landscape.As a member, you stay connected to new workshops, community events, and behind-the-scenes updates from our growing archive 🎤. Together, we document and celebrate the family tree of Black music—past, present, and future.

Welcome to the Black American Music Family Tree Historical Foundation Shop 🎵Every item here supports our work to research, preserve, and share the stories of Black musical genius—from spirituals and blues to jazz, soul, and hip-hop.Your purchase helps keep our archives growing, fuels educational programs for students and families, and uplifts the legacies of artists whose sounds shaped culture across generations. Thank you for standing with this history and carrying it forward. 👏

Your donation helps preserve, document, and teach the history of Black American music—the foundation of much of the world’s popular music.The Black American Music Family Tree Historical Foundation supports educational programs, interviews with artists and elders, archival research, youth engagement, and the development of It’s Bigger Than Hip Hop: The Black American Music Family Tree documentary series.From gospel, blues, jazz, R&B, rock and roll, funk, disco, house, techno, and hip hop, this work protects a legacy that deserves to be accurately remembered and passed forward.Every contribution helps us continue telling the full story.