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Howard gets $2M grant to digitize Black newspaper archive
“Howard University has received a $2 million donation to digitize a major collection of Black newspaper archives in hopes of making it more broadly available to researchers and the public.
The Black Press Archives, dating to the 1970s, contains over 2,000 newspaper titles from the U.S. and countries in Africa and the Caribbean. It includes well-known U.S. papers like the Chicago Defender and New York Amsterdam News as well as publications in French, Xhosa and Kiswahili.”
Solange’s Saint Heron Announces Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Literature - AfroTech
“The Saint Heron Library continues the work we have been building by preserving collections of creators with the urgency they deserve,” Solange said. “Together we seek to create an archive of stories and works we deem valuable. These works expand imaginations, and it is vital to us to make them accessible to students, and our communities for research and engagement, so that the works are integrated into our collective story and belong and grow with us.”
“The collection of 50 books is free and will be available — first come, first served — to U.S. -based residents only, starting Oct. 18 on Saint Heron’s website. Once checked out, readers will have access to their one selected book for 45 days.”
Photographs from the “Opportunity Please Knock” series with Oscar Brown Jr. in Chicago by Robert Sengstacke (1967)
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Photographs taken in various cities across Florida by Alex Webb (1980s-1990s) via Magnum Photos
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Footage from the Cheyney University May Weekend Celebration in 1992.
Raiford, Florida (1952). Originally silent, this footage was created as part of a tour of the Florida State Prison. This clips shows the women in the segregated sewing and laundry rooms via the Florida Memory archive.
Photographs from the Howard University series by Alfred Eisenstaedt (1946) via the LIFE Photo Collection.
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Students at Kent State University. Photographs by Lafayette Tolliver (1971) via the Kent State University digital collection.
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Photographs taken in Washington D.C. by Darrell C. Crain Jr. between (1963-1968). The photographs are part of the DC Public Library Digital Collection.
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Photographs taken in Pittsburgh by Charles Teenie Harris (1940s-1970) via the Carnegie Museum of Art archive.
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Dorsey’s BBQ in Ty Ty, Georgia. A collection of photographs contributed by Carl Fleischhauer and Thomas Adler (1977).
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Clark’s Creek Progressive Primitive Baptist Church service in Ararat, Virginia by Thomas Adler (1978)
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Illinois. Photographs in Galesburg and Chicago Unions Station by Esther Bubley (1948) via the Newberry Library.
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Photographs at Sun Shipbuilding and Drydock Co. shipyard in Chester, Pennsylvania by John Florea (1943) via the LIFE Photo Collection.
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Photographs from the “Jazz Essay” series by Eliot Elisofon (1954) via the LIFE Photo Collection
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