Sankofa · the atlas
The whole record, on one page

The Atlas

Everything the map holds, laid out so it can actually be read. Squares instead of coastlines — because on a real map the labels around West Africa, the Caribbean and the US Northeast stack into a mass none of them survive. Give every city its own cell and nothing can overlap, ever.

It also loads nothing from anywhere else. The main map pulls Leaflet, MarkerCluster, Supabase, Google Fonts, and a tile for every pan — five third parties, each learning which part of this map you were reading. On a record about being watched, that was worth removing where it could be removed.

The record

Documented incidents, each sourced on its own card in the full map. Counts are incidents, not rates, and not a finding of bias about any place or institution.

The grid

Every city profile, placed by real latitude and longitude, then snapped to its own square. Click one to read it — the full profile opens on the main map.

a city profile nudged to a free square land sea

Named institutions

Departments, facilities and agencies named directly in a case, with two or more documented reports — the same threshold the main map uses. Repetition at one institution is the thing a single case can never show.

This is a count of documented reports, not a judgement. A large agency appears here partly because it is large and partly because its records are public. The number is a reason to look, not a conclusion — and a small number never means a clean record, only a thin one.

Where the cases happened

Jurisdictions as reported in the FBI Supplementary Homicide Report. These are places, not accused institutions — they are kept separate from the list above on purpose.

Where the record is thickest

By state. This tracks documentation, not danger. A state high on this list may simply publish better records — several of the datasets behind this archive depend entirely on what a state chose to release.

Every city

Grouped by where they are. Each opens its full profile — the shared metrics, racial climate, schools, and what the record holds there.