Krystal Appiah

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A few folks have DM’d me abt the Frederick Douglass passage I excerpted at the rally. Here it is:

“Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation, are people who want crops without ploughing the ground; they want rain without thunder and lightning; 1/

@dem8z.bsky.social Thanks for your speech. Both your words and the Douglass quote were energizing.

BREAKING: Justice Jackson cites the Colored Conventions Project Digital Archive her dissent in Medina v. Planned Parenthood. These public collective digital projects MATTER and they WILL be heard. 👏👏👏

@ccp-org.bsky.social
@profgabrielle.bsky.social
@jimccasey1.bsky.social

Staff

Woke up this morning unemployed from our federal government positions.

Might we make a small request? Please spend a few minutes today browsing the names & bios of #NEH staff, most of whom are now without jobs, before the agency erases us from its memory. #humanities

www.neh.gov/about/staff

Here's the FDA's public comment portal. There's still time to provide feedback on their plan to restrict those under 65 from receiving the COVID-19 booster. www.regulations.gov/commenton/FD...

A few tips for NEH grantees:
1) if you've spent money on an awarded grant but have not yet drawn down the funds, make sure to submit the paperwork to drawn down funds ASAP.

2) the NYTimes article suggests that "DOGE" might cancel awards. If you receive an email from DOGE cancelling your NEH award,

The University of Virginia has created a website of archived government websites—bookmark it—you’re going to need it later.

guides.lib.virginia.edu/c.php?g=1451...

LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund. For artists and art workers impacted by the Los Angeles fires. Visit cciarts.org to check eligibility and apply for an emergency grant through February 18, 2025 at 5pm PST.

ATTN: artists and art workers impacted by the Palisades or Eaton Fires in Los Angeles.

The LA Arts Community Fire Relief Fund was organized by Getty and a coalition of arts supporters, and is at $14M and counting.

Apply at cciarts.org now for up to $10,000 of aid through February 18 at 5:00 pm PST

A painting of pilot Bessie Coleman. She is in front of a plane and wears a flying hat and googles, a white shirt and a brown jacket.

Born #OTD in 1892, Bessie Coleman was the first African American woman and Native American woman to earn a pilot’s license.

Denied entry to pilot programs in the U.S., Coleman moved to France and learned French to fulfill her dream. Watch the NEH-supported series UNLADYLIKE2020: ow.ly/WIBL50ULlzi

855 298 3271 immigration rapid response hotline Virginia network if ICE is at your door, don’t open! Call! If you see ICE on the street, stay away! Call us! In all cases, keep silent and don’t sign anything!

In case folks haven’t seen this, we have a rapid response hotline in Virginia for concerns about ICE activity

SHARE WIDELY.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS.

With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights.

You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one.

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Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory is a conference that seeks to further an interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral discussion on how the born-digital transforms research.

❗ Exciting conference news ❗ Registration is OPEN for Born-Digital Collections, Archives and Memory, 2-4 April 2025, in-person and online @dh-researchhub.bsky.social

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I'm just happy to be here. Looking forward to re-building community in this space!

It’s academic interview season so I thought I’d share here what I share with my advisees about campus visits. First up—job talk, then teaching demo, meals. Pan out and pro tip—your job is leave with them thinking of you as an 🔥exciting new colleague who wants to be there.🔥

We’re excited to announce the Library of Congress as this year’s Douglass Day partner! Together, we’ll transcribe important documents of Black history. Discover more at www.loc.gov. Let’s make history ✊! #YouMakeHistory #DouglassDay2025 #BlackHistory #HistoryMatters

Mellon Foundation The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

@mellonfoundation.bsky.social, via the Public Knowledge program, is launching another round of open calls for proposals from community-based archives, this time for general operating support funding. Read the solicitation here: www.mellon.org/article/call...

Applications now open for @atbw.bsky.social’s Web Archiving School. We’re recruiting fellows, instructors, and teaching assistants. Everyone is paid. Apply by January 31st, 2025. www.archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

Remembering Danna Bell | Teaching with the Library It’s with great sadness that we report the passing of our longtime friend and colleague Danna Bell. Danna served the Library of Congress for more than 25 years and was a core member of our K-12 educat...

From the Library of Congress, remembering Danna Bell❤️

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Archiving the Black Web has opened up our applications for Web Archiving School. Apply to be a fellow, instructor, or teaching assistant. Apps due January 31st, 2025.

Flyer for Know Your Rights Workshop Sponsored by International Rescue Committee, Sin Barreras, Legal Aid Justice Center , ACLU-VA, and Cruz Law, PLLC For more information call 434-531-0104.

Flyer for Power of Attorney Workshop Sponsored by International Rescue Committee, Sin Barreras, Legal Aid Justice Center , ACLU-VA, and Cruz Law, PLLC Includes list of documents to bring For more information call 434-531-0104.

Tomorrow, December 14th from 1-3 pm
The International Rescue Committee in Charlottesville is holding workshops at the Islamic Society of Central Virginia, 708 Pine Street.

The Society of American Archivists is seeking volunteers for an Archival Labor Task Force. Interested in shaping a worker-centered future of the field? Info here:

www2.archivists.org/governance/h...

Come work with me! An informational webinar is scheduled for December 18, 2024 from NOON - 1:00 PM Eastern Time. #archivesjobs

Sure, the UCLA "ai" class is obviously foolish, but has anyone followed the money?

It's pushing a platform called Kudu, funded by a German expat in the Philippines who sells creepy language classes online using clips from the Apprentice, Baywatch & "SexyMandarin." You can't make this up.

The evolving public services landscape in special collections: Insights from an OCLC RLP leadership roundtable  - The evolving public services landscape in special collections: Insights from an OCLC RLP leadership roundtable Reflections from a leadership discussion of recent changes in archives and special collections public services programs, including pandemic-era changes in serving researchers that have significantly…

Smart blog post from my colleague Chela Weber on the evolving public services landscape in special collections. What is impacting special collections service environments, and where do we want to go next?

So much gratitude to our OCLC RLP participants that make these discussions possible!

I am so excited to read Dr Anna Sexton’s new article about the legacies and trajectories of trauma in the archives field! It’s open access too (yay)! link.springer.com/epdf/10.1007... 📜📚

First page of The Monthly’s literary section, featuring “Those Who Have No Turkey.”

First page of The Monthly, including the magazine’s masthead, with Langston Hughes listed as a member of the editorial staff.

In this #Thanksgiving story penned by Langston Hughes as a student for Central High School Monthly’s December 1918 issue, a young rural woman, Diane Jordan, visits her wealthy aunt and cousins in Cleveland, Ohio, for Thanksgiving.

Fara Dabhoiwala · A Man of Parts and Learning: Francis Williams Gets His Due The only certainty about the picture is that it shows Francis Williams. No one has ever been able to discover who...

In the 17th-century, the Jamaican intellectual Francis Williams was rejected as a Fellow of the Royal Society on racist grounds. This brilliantly written piece in the @londonreview.bsky.social tells the story.

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Memory of the Week - Danna C. Bell Around 2009, I began my career in memory work.

"She often had a bemused smirk on her face and when we spoke she would tell me how proud of me she was. She was invested in me and cared to share that with me. Her care for me made me a better me." - @thomaspadilla.bsky.social

thomaspadilla.substack.com/p/memory-of-...

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