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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
People at tables working on laptops with 2 screen projections behind them.
Person in front of laptop transcribing on computer.
and more!
People at tables working on computers.
Posters from Special Collections from the NAACP collection inlcuding "Civil Rights is for everyone refardless of color" and Run DMC encouraging people to vote.
From Penn State Special Collections: Golden Legacy comic books.
From Penn State Special Collection: Issue from The Daily Christian Recorder (May 14, 1884), The Fighting Congressmen (1971), and The A.M.E. Zion Hymnal (1957)
We've been at it since 10am! Going strong at Penn State Libraries at University Park transcribing for Douglass Day 2026 ALSO: a pop up exhibit of Black history materials from Special Collections!
@douglassday.bsky.social
@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)
Participants at Douglass Day Transcribing event sitting at tables, with laptops, at the Newberry Library in Chicago.
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 from folks at JMU in VA! Excited to enter the Great Douglass Day Bake off! #DouglassDay
Hannah, you always come to impress!! We wish we could have a slice!
A giant pile of dough and whipped cream on a cake plate, liberally dusted in powdered sugar.
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
Amazing, Brittany!
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/
Get your Douglass Day 2026 stickers now!
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Our amazing Douglass Day 2026 stickers are now available for purchase and download! Click the link below and don't miss out on them!
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.
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
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
