March 27, 2023

WFTS: Florida Sentinel Bulletin history in the process of being digitized at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Library

WFTS: Florida Sentinel Bulletin history in the process of being digitized at the C. Blythe Andrews, Jr. Library. “The Florida Sentinel Bulletin Collection dates back to the 1940s. The collection highlights African American history that you wouldn’t see in other media outlets. Right now, the library is in the process of digitizing all of the items to make them more accessible to the community.”

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March 24, 2023

The Jefferson Monticello: Monticello Awarded $3.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant for Getting Word African American Oral History Project Expansion, Digital Archive

The Jefferson Monticello: Monticello Awarded $3.5 Million Mellon Foundation Grant for Getting Word African American Oral History Project Expansion, Digital Archive. “The Mellon Foundation, the nation’s largest supporter of the arts and humanities, recently awarded $3.5 million to Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to expand the UNESCO World Heritage Site’s pioneering Getting Word African American Oral History Project. Established in 1993, Getting Word is a decades-long initiative to collect and share the stories of Monticello’s enslaved community and their descendants.”

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March 10, 2023

University of North Carolina: Carolina Libraries acquires archive of renowned photographer Roland L. Freeman

University of North Carolina: Carolina Libraries acquires archive of renowned photographer Roland L. Freeman. “The collection at Wilson Library is a massive compilation of assignment and project work by Freeman from a career that spans more than fifty years of documenting Black communities, public figures and folk art and artisans. It consists of nearly 24,000 slides, 10,000 photographic prints, 400,000 negatives and 9,000 contact sheets. Also included are publications and an archive of Freeman’s papers.”

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March 8, 2023

Harvard Gazette: HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard team up to expand access to Black history

Harvard Gazette: HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard team up to expand access to Black history. “On Wednesday, the HBCU Library Alliance and Harvard Library announced a project to sustain and deepen capacity for the digitization, discovery, and preservation of African American history collections held in HBCU libraries and archives across the U.S.”

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February 27, 2023

The Press of Atlantic City: Black History Month at Atlantic City Library strengthened by digitized collection

The Press of Atlantic City: Black History Month at Atlantic City Library strengthened by digitized collection. “The Atlantic City Library marked Black History Month by touting its newly digitized repository ‘The City of Dreams: The Atlantic City Experience.’ The repository, the digitization of which was facilitated by a federal grant, features about 14,000 items from 25 collections that tell the story of the Black community in Atlantic City and the impacts it has made both locally in South Jersey and across the country.”

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February 25, 2023

Chicago Sun-Times: Newberry Library online exhibition showcases images from the Great Migration

Chicago Sun-Times: Newberry Library online exhibition showcases images from the Great Migration. “A new chapter in Black American history is unfolding at the Newberry Library, courtesy of a recently acquired glass slides collection highlighting the significance of Chicago and several other Northern cities during the Great Migration in the early 1920s. The Great Migration was the movement of millions of African Americans from the rural South to the urban Midwest, Northeast and West.”

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February 20, 2023

Cornell Chronicle: Website sheds light on 19th century Black literary culture

Cornell Chronicle: Website sheds light on 19th century Black literary culture. “The site includes 700 poems [Charline] Jao discovered and transcribed from periodicals managed by Black editors in New York City. The site is searchable by publication, title, description, author and other parameters. The website also includes collections of poems focused on themes — from deaths and elegies to hymns and songs to British poets and women poets. Another section showcases a large collection of online and textual resources.”

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February 18, 2023

UNC Libraries: Black and Carolina Blue Tour site highlights Black History at UNC-Chapel Hill

UNC Libraries: Black and Carolina Blue Tour site highlights Black History at UNC-Chapel Hill. “For more than 20 years, the Black and Blue Tour has introduced students and visitors to local histories of slavery, racism, memorialization and activism at UNC-Chapel Hill. Now, the University Libraries has released a revised Black and Carolina Blue Tour website, with updated and expanded entries for each tour stop.”

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February 18, 2023

Minneapolis StarTribune: This young St. Paul archivist safeguards the stories of historic Rondo

Minneapolis StarTribune: This young St. Paul archivist safeguards the stories of historic Rondo. “The person in charge of preserving memories from St. Paul’s historic Rondo neighborhood is a 27-year-old Black woman who handles decades-old photos with white cotton gloves. In a room organized with shelves of black archival storage boxes, Kayla Jackson can be overheard talking to a sepia-toned heirloom, calling the relic in her hands ‘my friend.’”

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February 18, 2023

Rochester First: Longest running Black newspaper ‘The Frederick Douglass Voice’ archived in Rochester

Rochester First: Longest running Black newspaper ‘The Frederick Douglass Voice’ archived in Rochester. “An archive project is being put together for what is considered the longest-running Black newspaper in New York known as The Frederick Douglass Voice. Civil rights champion Howard Coles began publishing the newspaper in 1933.”

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February 13, 2023

WBAL: AFRO Charities receives $2.257M in federal funds to preserve Black history

WBAL: AFRO Charities receives $2.257M in federal funds to preserve Black history. “Major steps are being taken to preserve a treasure trove of Black history in Baltimore. The AFRO American newspapers and its archives are getting millions of dollars to take the operation to the historic Upton Mansion in west Baltimore. The building was built in 1938, and it features more than 10,000 square feet of space for development.”

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February 13, 2023

Philly Voice: Museum of the American Revolution to digitize document archive of Black and Native American soldiers

Philly Voice: Museum of the American Revolution to digitize document archive of Black and Native American soldiers. “The Museum of the American Revolution is working to digitize a collection of nearly 200 rare documents detailing the names of Black and Native American soldiers who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. Through a partnership with Ancestry, the popular genealogy website, the Patriots of Color archive will be fully digitized and made available online at no cost to the public, museum officials announced on Friday.”

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February 11, 2023

LAist: Civil Rights Pioneer Myrlie Evers-Williams Has Donated Her Archival Collection To Pomona College

LAist: Civil Rights Pioneer Myrlie Evers-Williams Has Donated Her Archival Collection To Pomona College. “Myrlie Evers-Williams, a leader of the civil rights movement, has donated her archival collection to Pomona College, where she received her degree in sociology in 1968. Evers-Williams, 89, became known nationally following the 1963 assassination of her husband, NAACP official Medgar Evers, in the driveway of their Mississippi home.”

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