A community listening project
Black elders and young adults have more to share with each other than they get the chance to say out loud.
CarryShareOwe begins with listening — gathering questions, wisdom, memories, and honest reflections across generations in the Black community.
PROJECT TITLE: NOTHING NEW UNDER THE SUN
THREE WORDS, ONE PRACTICE
A name shaped by what passes between us.
Carry
What we inherit, survive, remember, and hold.
01
Share
The stories, questions, laughter, lessons, and truths we pass between generations.
02
Owe
The care, attention, listening, and responsibility we give back to each other.
03
CROSS-GENERATIONAL LISTENING SURVEY
Your voice shapes what comes next
The Cross-Generational Listening Survey takes about 7–8 minutes. Your responses help shape the archive, future conversations, and the larger direction of the project.
Takes about 7–8 minutes
Confidential responses
Helps shape the project
FROM THE EXCHANGE
Borrow a prompt. Bring it to the porch, the phone call, the dinner table.
A growing space for conversation starters, questions, and wisdom across generations. For now, take one with you and see where it leads.
ELDER
Prompt 01
“What's something you've lived through that you wish someone would actually ask you about?”
A CarryShareOwe conversation starter
YOUNG ADULT
Prompt 03
What's something about your elders' generation you wish you actually understood, instead of just assuming
A CarryShareOwe conversation starter
ELDER
Prompt 02
“What's the funniest thing that's ever happened to you that you still can't stop laughing about?”
A CarryShareOwe conversation starter
YOUNG ADULT
Prompt 04
“What's something you carry that you wish an elder in your life would ask you about?”
A CarryShareOwe conversation starter
A NOTE FROM THE FOUNDER
Built from listening, loss, memory, and the conversations we still have time to have.
CarryShareOwe was created by Tonya Bell as a way to make space for the questions, wisdom, laughter, and honest exchange that often go unsaid between generations.
Start with listening.
Take the survey, explore the prompts, and be part of a growing conversation between Black generations.