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Find our latest Spotlight Interview with Awa Diagne Lô on our Substack! The polyglot co-founder of the Translation Lab in the DSL encourages us to "be aware of the responsibility to speak, or to stay silent, and how powerful that choice is."

Full interview: lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...

A new Substack post from Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil reflects on how powerful mentorship and recognizing the breadth of labor is in creating community-based digital humanities projects.

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The “Black Kinship and AI” panel features Kim Gallon (Brown University), Christopher Dancy (Penn State University), Nadejda Webb (Johns Hopkins University) and Jonathan Baynes (EINDEVR).

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Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!

Dive into the Ecosystem and meet Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil! K4BL’s Digital Curation Fellow tells us about scholarly confidence, her connections to the American Southwest, and why she starts all of her conference presentations with Langston Hughes. open.substack.com/pub/lifexcod...

The “Ancestry, Genealogy, and DNA” panel features Melanie Maldonado (PROPA, Puerto Rico Sites of Slavery), Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Matthew Smith (UCL Legacies of British Slavery), and Richard Cellini (Harvard University).

Join us at the Who Owns Black Data? Conference on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic experts on Black ancestry, memorialization, and descendant engagement! 🖤

Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org

Who Owns Black Data? A conference series on stewarding the historical and cultural record of Black life in the Americas.

Panel 3: Black Kinship & AI featuring Jonathan Baynes, Christopher Dancy, Kim Gallon, and Nadejda Webb

Keynote Dialogue featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham (intro by Kim Gallon)

We hope to see you there on May 13-14! wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/

Panel 1: Archival Reparations featuring Cheryl Beredo, Connie Bell, Dorothy Berry, and Kathe Hambrick (moderator: Marlene Daut)

Panel 2: Ancestry, Genealogy, and DNA featuring Vincent Brown, Richard Cellini, Melanie Maldonado, and Matthew Smith (moderator: Alexandre White)

The WOBD conference is so excited to welcome an amazing roster of speakers for three panels + a keynote dialogue. Check out this list of powerhouse thinkers and doers shaping the conversation on Black data:

Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon.

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The symposium is open to the public throughout the day. If you would like to also join us for the reception and keynote dialogue, please register using this link:

Originally we planned to hold the symposium solely focused on the issue of reparations, but these new dangers prompted us to pivot *in medias res*, without sacrificing the original focus.

The past is under threat from a variety of forces, including the commodification of data, the privatization of knowledge, and more recently, a concerted effort to erase or rewrite history in ways that serve the interests of those in power.

Now the past is facing new dangers, and the question of ownership and control over the Black historical and cultural record is more urgent than ever.

In our second installment we continue our efforts to gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, and archivists from the Americas and Africa to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the question: Who owns and controls the Black historical and cultural record?

What: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚? A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ ̵R̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̵The Past in Danger
When: May 14, 2025
Where: Yale University

archipelagos A journal of Caribbean digital praxis

Everything that's going on won't stop me from being immensely proud to announce the launch of the 8th issue of archipelagos journal. In this special issue we highlight papiamentu and the ABD islands. With deep gratitude for our guest editor Margo Groenewoud. Enjoy! archipelagosjournal.org

Keywords for Black Louisiana — LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure

Thank you to our partners and the Keywords Community Circle and Advisory Board for your support.

Keywords for Black Louisiana is an NHPRC funded project in the LifexCode ecosystem. Learn more keywordsforblacklouisiana.org.

Community Engagement Fellow Cyntoya McCall (Tulane University), , our co-project managers. Associate Editors Olivia Barnard (French) and Kaillee Coleman (Spanish) offered final remarks. THANK YOU XULA Honors Program for partnering with us; Dean Shearon Roberts we are so inspired and grateful!

Congratulations to the Teaching Black History in Louisiana Project led by Nyla Williams, XULA Class of 2025, on the K-12 work you are doing and your first presentation!!! Huge thank you to the K4BL Research Team, especially Digital Curation Fellow Zaria El-Fil (University of Chicago) and...

This spring, Keywords for Black Louisiana hosted an incubator on African and African diaspora history. Thank you to our Scholar Specialists who joined us to think deeply over the course of a Saturday about nation, ethnicity, Blackness and gender!

The interviews can be accessed at www.nolahiphoparchive.com. You can also subscribe to the Amistad Research Center’s YouTube channel (www.youtube.com/@amistadrese...).

Rap music is Louisiana’s most lucrative cultural export, and yet the stories and histories of even the more well-known acts were often hard to find or little undocumented. The NOLA Hip Hop Archive has stepped in with a series of interviews with rap and hip hop artists conducted by Dr. Holly Hobbs.

As the first university-affiliated rap archive in the Deep South, the primary goal of the NOLA Hip Hop Archive has been to provide a space for the documentation of places, people, things and ideas not otherwise recorded in the dominant record.