Bronzevillian. B(earth) Nurturer. Active Archivist (Community/Arts/Social Justice). Artist & Curator (Photography/MixedMedia). Str Historian (SSChgo/BlkArts).
Congrats to @misterBooth, archivist for the Johnson Publishing Company Archive, who will be inducted this August as an SAA Fellow!
https://t.co/ZgEOmK8hO2
The collection—developed with Dr. Deborah Willis, Jina DuVernay, Dr. Tukufu Zuberi, Dr. Mark Sealy MBE, and Renée Mussai—comprises 30,000 photographs (U.S. and U.K.) available for free non-commercial, educational use. Applications for access are open now.
https://t.co/d9Yk2Oat5Z
"We need to activate the records in our care, not for some vague future that might not ever come, but right now, to dismantle oppression today." Michelle Caswell talks about her new book Urgent Archives in #ArchivalOutlook: https://t.co/rJpREarRk6
Congratulations to the Shift Collective, which has received an @NEH_ODH grant to work with Historypin, a digital platform that expands knowledge of local histories.
https://t.co/pah4As9ifL
#NEHGrant#NEH
You want to thank Black women?
Cancel student debt -- all of it.
Black women carry more student debt than any other group in America.
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New episode of Archives in Context! Petrina Jackson & Verónica Reyes-Escudero talk about their 2020 open letter "A Call for Justice," which asked colleagues “to take action to recognize & destroy structural/systemic racism & inequality" in the profession: https://t.co/pwcxj2IlhH
We're asking that the City of Chicago invest $25 million for COVID relief for creative businesses in Chicago. Sign the petition! #artsmatter https://t.co/KSHXSCSDtA