William & Mary: Students digitize Black women’s history, one diary at a time. “[Mia] Hunt is one of a dozen W&M students contributing to the Black Women’s Diaries Project (BWDP), a multi‑year effort led by [Professor Jennifer] Putzi to transcribe, annotate and digitally encode the diaries of 19th‑ and early 20th‑century African American women. The project will debut online in October […]

What I’m Reading: For the first time, we now know how many Black-owned bookstores exist in the U.S.. “[National Association of Black Bookstores] also launched its National Black-Owned Bookstore Directory, an index of the Black-operated brick-and-mortar stores, mobile shops and online sellers across the country. The report states that there are 306 Black-owned bookstores nationwide, approaching […]

WUGA: New website documents historic displacement of Black neighborhoods in Downtown Athens . “R-51 displaced nearly 400 households and demolished community structures in the 1960s in Downtown Athens. The displacement disproportionately affected Black families, who made up about 60% of the households.”

State of Delaware: Diverse Histories Virtual Exhibit Launches, Expanding Delaware’s Story Beyond 1776 . “Delaware 250 has officially launched the Delaware’s Diverse Histories virtual exhibit, an online experience that highlights voices often underrepresented in traditional Revolutionary-era narratives. Long before independence was declared, the land that is now Delaware was home to the […]

New-to-me, from High Country News: How community organizers are amplifying Oregon’s Black music history. “The online repository contains over 13,000 items from 180 sources. There’s music, of course — live recordings, out-of-circulation albums, unreleased demos — plus film, newsprint, posters, handbills and oral histories. This massive collection is the backbone of the archive, but it […]

Library of Congress: Resources for African American History Month: Primary Source Sets. “During the month of February, Teaching with the Library will spotlight different resources that support teaching and learning about the achievements and contributions of African Americans throughout U.S. history. This post highlights several primary source sets that teachers may want to incorporate into […]

📚 I recently finished reading The Warmth Of Other Suns - the story of the Great Migration, the movement of Black Americans out of the South from about 1915 to 1970 - by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson. Telling the story through the eyes of 3 people who experienced that journey made for a moving + enlightening read. 📚

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Penn State University: Q&A: Can humanities-driven AI reshape digital archive preservation and access? . “What do artificial intelligence (AI) and Black digital archives have to do with one another? A great deal, according to Christopher Dancy, associate professor of industrial and manufacturing engineering and of computer science at Penn State. Black digital archives are online collections that […]

Tubefilter: Minecraft wants kids to get into good trouble with civil rights roleplays. “Minecraft is adding an interactive twist to Black History Month. The sandbox game’s scholastic division, Minecraft Education, has released a historical learning experience that recreates pivotal moments from the Civil Rights movement.”

Take a Giant Step

Scene from the 1959 film with Johnny Nash & Estelle Hemsley (nominated for a Golden Globe). Johnny Nash would forgo film for a successful music career (| Can See Clearly Now). This gem of a film was directed by Philip Leacock from a play by Louis S Peterson

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