
Colored Conventions
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The Colored Conventions Project is a collaborative that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through convention records and digital exhibits.
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Herman L. Bennet, President of The Renaissance Society of America, will give a talk titled “Subjects and Subjection: Africans, Christianity and the Making of the Early Modern Black Body”. The event, organized by @Hec_tor_LG, will take place on 11/18, in 121 Borland.


Lori Ginzberg, Prof Emeritus of PSU History Dept. and Penn State Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, will be discussing her new book, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History, with Tamala Edwards, Thursday, Nov 14, 7:30 pm, at the Parkway Central Library. libwww.freelibrary.org/programs/autho…



Futures of Black Digital Humanities opening night keynote feat. Dana A. Williams, a collaboration between Smithsonian’s NMAAHC, History of Black Writing, and Howard’s Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics.


From the Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk daily write on site--participant Janice Anderson published an essay she wrote during our sessions! "Black Canadas Claim the Nation amid Erasure of Africville in Boyd’s Consecrated Ground." Theatre Research in Canada 45.2 (2024): 191-211. utppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.313….



Hey Teachers! 🎂 Join us for DOUGLASS DAY!🎂 On Feb 14 we are transcribing Black history with the LOC Crowdsourcing! Open to all! 💻 Free curriculum coming soon! 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! DouglassDay.org #NCTE #NCTE24 #NCSS #NCSS24






Wrapping up 2024 and almost finishing our list of #slaveryarchive most anticipated books of 2025: looking forward to reading historian Dr. Hilary Green's new book Unforgettable Sacrifice, out in February 2025, pre-order here fordhampress.com/9781531508524/…


Hey friends at #AHA25! Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with LOC Crowdsourcing! See DouglassDay.org to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!

