Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk. Home to @CCP_org • Black Women's Organizing Archive • @DouglassDayorg. digblk.psu.edu • digblk.bsky.social
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
21 Feb 2025
Back on here for a minute to say — we're hiring!
The *CBDR Data Scientist* position is remote & very broadly defined. Come collaborate on our archives & AI projects!
We're reviewing apps this month. Help spread the word?
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
6 Feb 2025
*For immediate release*
Join the Library of Congress for a Douglass Day 2025 Transcribe-a-Thon and Other Black History Month Events
Press release (Feb 4, 2025)
newsroom.loc.gov/news/join-t… #DouglassDay
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
5 Jan 2025
Hey friends at #AHA25!
Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with @Crowd_LOC!
See DouglassDay.org to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
23 Nov 2024
Hey Teachers!
🎂 Join us for DOUGLASS DAY!🎂
On Feb 14 we are transcribing Black history with the @Crowd_LOC! Open to all!
đź’» Free curriculum coming soon!
📽️ Live Broadcast
🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off
đź“Ł Special guests!
DouglassDay.org #NCTE #NCTE24 #NCSS #NCSS24
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
19 Nov 2024
From the @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….
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
15 Oct 2024
🚀 History in the making! We're teaming up with @librarycongress & @Crowd_LOC for Douglass Day 2025!
What can our collective actions for Black history accomplish? Learn more in our latest newsletter!
🔗 Read now: douglassday.substack.com/p/d…
ALT Douglass Day & the Library of Congress Douglass Day and By the People go back to 2021! Read more about our partnership!
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
15 Oct 2024
We're thrilled to be teaming up with Douglass Day again in 2025 to transcribe @librarycongress rare books! Mark your calendars for Feb. 14 and stay tuned for more Douglass Day 2025 details🥳
6 Sep 2024
SAVE THE DATE: Feb. 14, 2025! 🎂
Join us in transcribing the AFAM Perspectives Collection @Crowd_LOC!
📽️Watch the Live Broadcast
đź’»Crowdsource with the Library of Congress
🍰Celebrate and Win the Great DDay Bakeoff
Info & registration @ douglassday.org
Help us share?
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
3 Oct 2024
For Feedback Friday this week, we will discuss how to define, center, and operationalize *your* values-based professional commitments. Why do we need to be clear about our values?! So institutions don’t substitute their values and priorities for our own. Come thru! RT!
Looking for accountability in your work? #DigBlk Write-on-Sites are back August 26! Register here➡️bit.ly/write-on-site-24-25
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We’re hiring! CENTRO is looking for a Digital Archives Manager to lead our digital preservation efforts. If you're passionate about managing archives and making a lasting impact, this role is for you! Click here to apply! ow.ly/Cavy50TBAqe
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
3 Oct 2024
For Feedback Friday this week, we will discuss how to define, center, and operationalize their own values-based professional commitments. Why do we need to be clear about our values?! So institutions don’t substitute their values and priorities for yours. Come thru! RT!
Looking for accountability in your work? #DigBlk Write-on-Sites are back August 26! Register here➡️bit.ly/write-on-site-24-25
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
The Department of Government and the Africana Studies program at William & Mary jointly seek apps for a TT position at the Assistant Professor level with an emphasis on the politics of race & ethnicity of the peoples of Africa and/or the African diaspora.
indeed.com/m/viewjob?jk=5c1c…
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
Looking for accountability in your work? #DigBlk Write-on-Sites are back August 26! Register here➡️bit.ly/write-on-site-24-25
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
23 Sep 2024
This story of forced migration for Black education starts in the 19th century—from Henry Highland Garnet, Julia Williams Garnet, and Alexander Crummell to the stories @profcsanders elucidates here! You don’t want to miss this new book.
"@profcsanders examines Black graduate students who relocated to the North, Midwest, and West to continue their education with segregation scholarships, revealing the many challenges they faced along the way." -- @UNC_Press
uncpress.org/book/9781469679…
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
23 Sep 2024
What a mighty group of writer warriors and Get PHinishD particpants we have! Writing a dissertation, book, essay? Don’t do it alone. Come join us! All disciplines are welcome! Please RT.
Need to finish some writing?! Join us for #DigBlk Write-on-Sites! Register here➡️bit.ly/write-on-site-24-25
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Making the Convention records fully and freely available and creating digital exhibits that tell the remarkable stories of early Black organizing has been an honor and privilege. Check out (and teach) our exhibits to your high school and college students! coloredconventions.org/exhib…
20 Sep 2024
#tdih 1830
Forty African Americans, elected by communities in nine states, met in Philadelphia.
They founded the National Colored Conventions movement.
Read ⬇️, follow @CCP_org, and visit digital collection with essays here: coloredconventions.org
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
20 Sep 2024
Haven't heard of Colored Conventions Movement?
As @profgabrielle says on link⬇️not as visible as interracial abolitionist movement.
"[May be because] Colored Conventions project highlights Black agency, Black leadership, Black organizational power." delawarepublic.org/culture-l…
ALT Photos and primary docs in a collage about Colored Conventions Movement
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Center for Black Digital Research đź–¤ #DigBlk retweeted
Need to finish some writing?! Join us for #DigBlk Write-on-Sites! Register here➡️bit.ly/write-on-site-24-25
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Come work with us!✨
The Center for Black Digital Research is looking for 2 undergraduate communications student assistants at Penn State, University Park.
More information➡️ bit.ly/-cbdr-student-assista…
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Congratulations to @profgabrielle on your induction into the American Academy of Arts & Sciences! A well-deserved honor.
amacad.org/new-members-2024
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