September 5, 2023

UC Riverside: UCR California Digital Newspaper Collection receives grant to archive regional newspapers serving Black communities

UC Riverside: UCR California Digital Newspaper Collection receives grant to archive regional newspapers serving Black communities . “The grant will be used to digitize a collection of newspapers serving Black communities in the Los Angeles and San Francisco Bay areas between World War II and 1963. UCR’s project is part of the NEH initiative American Tapestry: Weaving Together Past, Present, and Future, emphasizing the role of the humanities in tackling contemporary social challenges. “

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August 8, 2023

Washington Post: Fleeing Elon Musk’s X, the quest to re-create ‘Black Twitter’

Washington Post: Fleeing Elon Musk’s X, the quest to re-create ‘Black Twitter’. “Prominent Black users are now moving to other sites, attempting to re-create Black Twitter on a dizzying array of emerging services, from Mastodon to Meta’s just-launched Threads. Smaller apps also have cropped up or gained users, including the safety-focused Spoutible and Black-owned Fanbase and Somewhere Good. The latest entrant is Spill, a Twitter alternative launched in June by a Black Twitter executive — one of many fired by Musk.”

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July 21, 2023

Virginia Theological Seminary: Promoting Archives Access

Virginia Theological Seminary: Promoting Archives Access. “I am happy to announce that the Virginia Theological Seminary Archives is now online! … This resource will allow researchers to search through over 400 collections in the VTS Archives and the African American Episcopal Historical Collection (AAEHC). Each collection contains information on its current state of processing, and pdfs of any finding aids or inventories available. Additionally, there are links to the AAEHC Oral History Collection and the Called and Holy: LGBTQIA+ Oral History Collection.”

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July 19, 2023

James Madison University: Furious Flower Poetry Center hosts more than 20 scholars and poets to create an open-access curriculum

James Madison University: Furious Flower Poetry Center hosts more than 20 scholars and poets to create an open-access curriculum. “The Furious Flower Poetry Center, in partnership with the Furious Flower Advisory Board, hosted more than 20 scholars and poets at James Madison University in June to create an open-access curriculum for incorporating Black poetry into classrooms of all ages and levels. These pedagogical materials will be distributed to educators nationwide for free to encourage further engagement with Black poetry.”

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July 14, 2023

Refinery29: Are The Spill & Threads Apps New Homes For Black Internet Discourse?

Refinery29: Are The Spill & Threads Apps New Homes For Black Internet Discourse?. “Using Twitter was, and arguably still is, a uniquely connective experience that moved at the lightning speed of your every thought. Nothing compares to when Rihanna’s off-the-cuff clapbacks were at their most savage, people pulled up to Twitter like a family cookout, and anyone could gain new followers-turned-family using friendly hashtags. But in recent years, the conversation has taken a turn.”

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July 8, 2023

New York Times: Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History

New York Times: Black Artists Say A.I. Shows Bias, With Algorithms Erasing Their History. “Many Black artists are finding evidence of racial bias in artificial intelligence, both in the large data sets that teach machines how to generate images and in the underlying programs that run the algorithms. In some cases, A.I. technologies seem to ignore or distort artists’ text prompts, affecting how Black people are depicted in images, and in others, they seem to stereotype or censor Black history and culture.”

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July 4, 2023

Pew: #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10

Pew: #BlackLivesMatter Turns 10. “In July 2013, activists first used the #BlackLivesMatter hashtag to spark conversation about racism, violence and the criminal justice system following George Zimmerman’s acquittal in the shooting death of Trayvon Martin in Sanford, Florida. Ten years later, Black Lives Matter stands as a model of a new generation of social movements intrinsically linked to social media.”

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June 28, 2023

Furman University: Summer institute ‘Reconstructing the Black Archive’ aims to create a more complete picture of history

Furman University: Summer institute ‘Reconstructing the Black Archive’ aims to create a more complete picture of history. “Twenty-four scholars from across the country will spend three weeks in South Carolina, learning how to teach and tell a more complete picture of American history, thanks to a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. ‘Reconstructing the Black Archive,’ a summer institute run by Furman University and Clemson University, will send the scholars, most of whom teach undergraduate students, into churches, historical associations, museums and other sources to learn to recover missing, often intentionally buried, histories.”

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June 11, 2023

Pride Month 2023: See more than 1,000 rare Ballroom photos for the first time (Google Blog)

Google Blog: Pride Month 2023: See more than 1,000 rare Ballroom photos for the first time. “As we continue to celebrate Pride, we must understand the roots and impact of this culture that cultivated a Black and brown queer renaissance, which is why I’m so proud to share Ballroom in Focus on Google Arts & Culture: the largest collection of Ballroom archival material in one place. The project brings together never-before-digitized images with over 25 curated stories, coming directly from Ballroom’s leaders and icons themselves.”

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June 4, 2023

Getty: The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History

Getty: The Ambitious Plan to Open Up a Treasure Trove of Black History. “The Johnson Publishing Company produced iconic magazines including Ebony and Jet and its archive is regarded as one of the most significant collections of 20th century Black American culture. The archive contains around 5,000 magazines, 200 boxes of business records, 10,000 audio and visual recordings, and 4.5 million prints and negatives that chronicle Black life from the 1940s until the present day… After the publishing company filed for bankruptcy in 2019, a consortium comprising five institutions including the J. Paul Getty Trust and the Smithsonian Institution purchased the archive.”

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June 2, 2023

University of Washington Information School: MLIS Students Correct The Record On Black Panthers

University of Washington Information School: MLIS Students Correct The Record On Black Panthers. “‘Education is liberation.’ Elmer Dixon, a Seattle Black Panther co-founder, shared these words of wisdom with Master of Library and Information Science students (pictured, left to right) Mei’lani Eyre and Dev Wilder as they worked to create a digital archive combating disinformation about the Black Panther Party.”

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May 10, 2023

‘The world’s largest Black group chat’: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter (The 19th)

The 19th: ‘The world’s largest Black group chat’: Behind the mission to preserve Black Twitter. “[Meredith] Clark is part of Archiving The Black Web, a group of digital archivists seeking to preserve the stories of Black people and extend existing archival practices to the digital sphere. This group and others hope to document not just the content created on the platform but how Black people use it for communication and community.”

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May 1, 2023

University of Alabama: UA-Created Digital Exhibition of Alabama Artist Publicly Available

University of Alabama: UA-Created Digital Exhibition of Alabama Artist Publicly Available. “[Joe] Minter, a found-object artist, tells the story of his life, and a cultural movement, in a collection he calls ‘African Village in America’ built on nearly 1 acre around his home in Birmingham, Alabama. UA experts in geographic imaging, art curation, digital cataloguing and art history created a digital rendering to offer immediate access to the artist’s site-specific presentation of found-object sculptures for both scholars and the public, who previously could only experience the monumental environment by visiting in person.”

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