Colleagues, I'm honored to be part of Dr. Nicole A. Cooke's inaugural and critically necessary course, "History of Black Librarianship," and thrilled to be in good company as we explore Black Librarian Futures. If you've enrolled in the course, I'm looking forward to seeing & talking with you!

A screenshot of a spreadsheet listing students who have been targeted by the State Department.

In case you were wondering why we're leveling up. Well, we are fast approaching 1000 students and faculty targeted by the current administration. We have cases of visa revocations, detentions, deportations and many unknowns. Time to double down.

I’m excited to share that I’ve been selected as a 2025-26 Price Lab Fellow, where I’ll continue developing the Beyond a Haunting project. BaH queries the relationship between histories of indenture and belonging.

I answer to many names; Dr. Webb is Doris’ granddaughter, a Wakenaam girl. 🌻💐

Can I even conjure a self, a re-presentation of myself without a reference to my ancestors? “These people are my access to me; they are my entrance into my own interior life” (Morrison, “The Site of Memory” 95) and as I am, they are.

[“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”]

people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.

BaH is part of the We Live Language lab in the Black Beyond Data ecosystem.

art work by rita persaud 🌻

What can small data tell us about the quotidian impacts of limited scale representation in the aftermath of trauma and erasure? Catch me next month as I present and discuss “Beyond A Haunting,” a project centering histories of indenture and belonging.

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We've been celebrating JH Love Data Week over on our Instagram! Learn why some of the members of Keywords for Black Louisiana love data, and tune in to their panel "Data Stewardship and Black DH: Researching and Building K4BL" TOMORROW, Feb 13 @ 10 AM ET! dataservices.library.jhu.edu/love-data-we...

In 1926 Carter G. Woodson began Negro History Week to promote and celebrate Black history. In 1976, Negro History Week became Black History Month.

LifexCode members Dr. Nadejda Webb, Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil, Ellie Palazzolo, Akosa Obianwu, and Olivia Barnard will be presenting at JH Love Data Week, February 10-14!

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What: Roundtable Discussion | AI, Data & Ownership ✨

When: Feb. 20th. 2025

Who: Dr. Kim Gallon, Associate Professor, Brown Uni
Dr. Alex Gil, Associate Research Faculty, Yale Uni

I try my best to remember that when I speak to [unkind] adults, there is a child in there too. Operationalizing compassion is not for the weak.

Excited to try out bluesky, hey y'all!