Colored Conventions

The Colored Conventions Project is a collaborative that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through convention records and digital exhibits.

[Colored Conventions @CCP_org]

We’re delighted to work with Dr. Andre Johnson as he edits the 👉🏽next edited collection on the Colored Convention movement👈🏽 with pieces by @HilaryGreen77, Derrick Spires, @katemasur, John Ernest, and @FictionsofHaiti responding to an exciting cadre of up and coming scholars!

[Andre E. Johnson @aejohnsonphd]

The introduction of the edited volume on the Colored Conventions is now complete (@CCP_org).
#GritandGrind
#StillWriting
#ColoredConventions

[Colored Conventions @CCP_org]

Job advertisement: https://t.co/gvj8JnxBzO

[Colored Conventions @CCP_org]

Back on here for a minute to say — we're hiring!

The *CBDR Data Scientist* position is remote & very broadly defined. Come collaborate on our archives & AI projects!

We're reviewing apps this month. Help spread the word?

[Douglass Day @DouglassDayorg]

*For immediate release*

Join the Library of Congress for a Douglass Day 2025 Transcribe-a-Thon and Other Black History Month Events

Press release (Feb 4, 2025)
https://t.co/DrgBRPT8Vc #DouglassDay

[Douglass Day @DouglassDayorg]

Hey friends at #AHA25!

Join us on Feb 14 to help transcribe Black archives with @Crowd_LOC!

See https://t.co/rDPMW1yqJs to register. Plus get access to our organizing kit, teaching guides, interactive tutorials, swag and lots more!

[#Slaveryarchive Digital Initiative @SlaveryarchiveX]

Wrapping up 2024 and almost finishing our list of #slaveryarchive most anticipated books of 2025: looking forward to reading historian @HilaryGreen77's new book Unforgettable Sacrifice, out in February 2025, pre-order here https://t.co/j8Cpcjy7m4

[The Intercept @theintercept]

Big public universities, historically at the forefront of catalyzing activist movements, are now using legal action, disciplinary efforts, and rule changes to chill speech and dissent. https://t.co/fYsTEIPDyv

[Late Model Toyota Previa @LMToyotaPrevia]

Spillers subsequently concluded her lecture with this powerfully apposite comment: "What our writers have paid imaginative witness to is the fact that there is no human loneliness and alone-ness remotely comparable to that of the enslaved beyond the reach and scope of love and freedom. The day that the enslaved decides to act out the threat of death that hangs over her, by risking her life, is the first day of wisdom. And whether or not one survives is perhaps less important than the recognition that, unless one is free, love cannot and will not matter."

Note #11

Sexton, J. (2016). Afro-pessimism: The Unclear Word. Rhizomes: Cultural Studies in Emerging Knowledge, (29).

[Global Black Studies at Duke @DukeAAAS]

'Spelman College has scored a major coup with the hiring of award-winning filmmaker Shola Lynch as its Diana King Endowed Professor in Film, Filmmaking, Television, and Related Media in the Department of Art and Visual Culture.'
https://t.co/7kQev3xOPC

[Larry La Fountain @larrylafountain]

Georgetown Names Soyica Diggs Colbert as Interim Provost - Georgetown University https://t.co/t0GEXNTLVm

[Black Perspectives @BlkPerspectives]

Global Black Thought, the official journal of the African American Intellectual History Society (AAIHS), is now accepting submissions for our special issue on the 90th anniversary of W.E.B. Du Bois’s book, Black Reconstruction in America.

https://t.co/BZIDQUYiJc

[Douglass Day @DouglassDayorg]

Hey Teachers!

🎂 Join us for DOUGLASS DAY!🎂

On Feb 14 we are transcribing Black history with the @Crowd_LOC! Open to all!

💻 Free curriculum coming soon!
📽️ Live Broadcast
🍰 Great Douglass Day Bake Off
📣 Special guests!

https://t.co/rDPMW1xSTU #NCTE #NCTE24 #NCSS #NCSS24

[Adam X. McNeil, PhD (aka Metaphors & Memes) @CulturedModesty]

Assistant Professor of Museum Studies and History (Tenure Line) https://t.co/DVuwXcsWtU

[Kinohi Nishikawa @kinohin]

Futures of Black Digital Humanities opening night keynote feat. Dana A. Williams, a collaboration between @NMAAHC, @ProjectHBW, and Howard’s Center for Applied Data Science and Analytics.

[Colored Conventions @CCP_org]

From the @DigBlk daily write on site--participant Janice Anderson published an essay she wrote during our sessions! "Black Canadas Claim the Nation amid Erasure of Africville in Boyd’s Consecrated Ground." Theatre Research in Canada 45.2 (2024): 191-211. https://t.co/gC4ZsjQDzC.

[NCPH @ncph]

NCPH will be stepping back from this platform. Our account, which retains the history and memory of a vibrant and joyful online public history community, will stay up, but we will no longer be actively monitoring or posting here. 1/

[PSU History Graduate Student Association @hgsapsu]

Herman L. Bennet, President of @RSAorg, will give a talk titled “Subjects and Subjection: Africans, Christianity and the Making of the Early Modern Black Body”. The event, organized by @Hec_tor_LG, will take place on 11/18, in 121 Borland.

[@richardscenter.bsky.social @RichardsCenter]

Lori Ginzberg, Prof Emeritus of @PSUHistory and @PennStateWGSS, will be discussing her new book, Tangled Journeys: One Family’s Story and the Making of American History, with Tamala Edwards, Thursday, Nov 14, 7:30 pm, at the Parkway Central Library. https://t.co/rIAwIXDJq2