Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk

Announcing Douglass Day 2027! Join us Feb 11, 2027 to transcribe early Black newspapers and magazines. Together we can make these papers open to all! We have tons of free resources coming soon to help bring Douglass Day into your class, school, or community! Register & updates: DouglassDay.org

🎂 SAVE THE DATE for Feb 11, 2027! 🎂 Douglass Day will feature Transcribe the Early Black Press! 💻 New Crowdsourcing Project 📽️ Live Broadcast 🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off 📣 Special guests! Host an event or join us online! Help us spread the word? Register now: DougalssDay.org

Check out @ccp-org.bsky.social's newest exhibit: Music in the Colored Conventions! Just in time for celebrating Juneteenth and Black Music Month.

🎤Getting the word out: Application review will begin on Monday, May 4th. If you are interested, apply today! bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

We'll begin reviews soon for a CBDR Data Scientist who will contribute their technical expertise to support projects involving digital collections, computational analysis, and Black digital humanities scholarship. Apply today! bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

Join us! #DigBlk is hiring a creative & forward-thinking Data Scientist to advance computational research & digital scholarship using Black archival collections & datasets and Black archives & critical AI w/ @ccp-org.bsky.social and @douglassday.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

@douglassday.bsky.social Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass! #douglassday

#DouglassDay The beautiful cake in honor of Transcribe 2026 for Douglass Day at USM (university of southern Mississippi) @douglassday.bsky.social

@douglassday.bsky.social were happily transcribing away this Douglass Day! (And enjoying cake in honor of his bday)

Today we're celebrating #DouglassDay with @douglassday.bsky.social, students from Loyola Center for Textual Studies and Digital Humanities, and volunteers around the world. You could hear a pin-drop in the room during the powerful reading of “Why Hold a Colored Convention?” by Hassan El-Amin.

Happy Douglass Day to all who celebrate! our cake this year is a karpatka: a choux dough filled with bourbon pastry cream, cherry rosemary compote, and a layer of dark chocolate ganache. Brandy snaps around the edge spell out “happy bday!”. #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social

Ho @douglassday.bsky.social this is @unlv.edu here at UNLV Libraries with a cake from Cake Designs Las Vegas featuring the cover page of the first Colored Convention in the West & a timeline of Black American History of the West…ending with our award winning cake from 2024!

Celebrating the First Colored Conventions in the West with our @douglassday.bsky.social cake for @unlv.edu's annal celebration. The time line includes: 1. Pio Pico: Last Governor of California in Mexico 2. Buffalo Soldiers 3. Mary Ellen Pleasant 4. Harlem Renaissance Band

Thrilled to have Chris Dancy @profdancy.bsky.social, Deja Workman @dejaworkman.bsky.social and Fitsum Sileshi Beyen thinking and building with us! 🎉

Join our longtime satellite partner Dr. Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd.bsky.social on the Feb. 21 for the “Sanctuaries of Struggle: The Colored Conventions and the Black Church as Social Movement" symposium. Schedule and more info: www.facebook.com/events/75634...

We're thrilled for the 9th annual Douglass Day global transcribe-a-thon: a day of collective action for Black history! We'll transcribe records of the Colored Conventions movement—3K docs on deck! 100+ groups are hosting events, including 10 Penn State campus libraries ▶️ douglassday.org/penn-state/

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Join us in celebrating the life and success of Frances E.W. Harper by helping to transcribe her records and preserve her enduring legacy! By joining the transcribe-a-thon, you will make Harper’s letters, essays, newspaper pieces, and published writing fully searchable and freely available worldwide.

Celebrating Frances E. W. Harper's rich & prolific life continues with UC Berkeley's Americanist Colloquium. Join the virtual #Harper200 Read-a-Thon on Tues., 10/21 at 11am PST/2pm MST/2pm EST. Want more details or learn how to host your own readathon? Visit: coloredconventions.org/read-harper-...

Harper 200 Symposium: What a weekend! Frances E. W. Harper got her due-and in so many ways she who mixed her words and actions into a legendary rue was honored in ways worthy of her. Thanks to everyone who made this weekend special! For those who couldn't join, stay tuned for recordings coming soon!

Harper 200 Symposium: What a weekend! Frances E. W. Harper got her due-and in so many ways she who mixed her words and actions into a legendary rue was honored in ways worthy of her. Thanks to everyone who made this weekend special! For those who couldn't join, stay tuned for recordings coming soon!

Join us Friday 9/26 at 8:30 AM EST for this week's Feedback Friday session! This session will focus on strategies for getting great teaching evaluations from your students! Come and lend your experience to our community! #FacultyOfColor #BlackInTheIvory #BIPOCFaculty #FacultyDevelopment #digblk

We're just one month away! Here is a sneak peek at the 5️⃣ featured panels. More information at: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s... #Harper200 @ccp-org.bsky.social

Welcome to #DigBlk News! This paper highlights just some of the amazing, and informative, Colored Conventions Project Digital Exhibits. These exhibits allow us to take a step back into history and gain insight into various key events. Here are just 5 of the amazing exhibits you can explore!

REFRESH FRIDAY! Please share with your folks through your channels. We'd love to be in community to commemorate Frances Harper. INFO: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s... & digblk.substack.com/p/harper-200... @c19americanists.bsky.social @recoveryhubaww.bsky.social  @modernlanguage.bsky.social

Coming to Eisenhower Auditorium at PSU on September 19! The Artistry and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper brings Harper’s legacy to life for a new generation—reclaiming history, honoring resilience, and celebrating artistic activism. TICKETS ON SALE NOW: cpa.psu.edu/events/franc...

“If you are talking about Philadelphia in this era & the work of women, you just have to mention Harper, you just have to.”—Dr. Sherita L. Johnson interview w/ the Philly @inquirer.com discussing Frances E. W. Harper's portrayal in “The Gilded Age." #Harper200 www.inquirer.com/entertainmen...

"Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Family, We are excited to be hosting an in-person symposium on September 19-21–just days before Frances Harper’s 200th birthday. We invite you to attend in person!" #Harper200 Continue reading: open.substack.com/pub/digblk/p...

SAVE THE DATE: We are excited to co-host #Harper200 Sept. 19-21. We invite you to attend in person! The weekend festivities include a dance performance, scholarly panels, poetry readings, receptions, and more. Most events are free. Learn more & register at: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...

Just getting started now with - "Digital Blackness: Collective Care, Community & Co-Creation Through the Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and Carceral Algorithms" With Deja Workman, Eden Mekonen, and Denise Burgher! at the @ach.bsky.social virtual conference. Come through! #BlackDH