Black Women's Organizing Archive

We are gearing up for Digitize Black Women’s Records Day on Mar 26, 2024. #DBWRD2024 will be a celebration of Black women's digitized repository collections through scholarship, art, community initiatives, and pedagogy. Please find more information about the event on our flier!

Digitize Black Women's Records Day was nourishing! Black women scholars, artists, educators, and archivists shared their connections to Black women's archives, underscoring how access is more than digital matter, but part of nurturing our collective humanity. Bravo @BWOA_Project!

We encourage engaging with these collections in an effort to keep these women’s and other Black women’s histories alive. We also hope to encourage other institutions to digitize more of their collections to make these histories even more accessible to wider audiences.

Mary Church Terrell was a renowned speaker, educator, civil rights and women’s rights activist. At BWOA we bring together Terrell’s records in our paper’s locator where we distinguish between digitized and non digital collections. You can find them here: bwoaproject.org/church-terrell/

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@BWOA_Project's #DBWRD2024 was a success! So grateful to be in conversation with my mentor-poet-friends @damarishill and Meta Jones, and all the other scholars, teachers, and archivist that joined us. The space was LITERALLY transformed by your presence, wisdom, and creativity.💖

While our Digitize Black Women's Records Day event was yesterday, you can still watch our guest speakers highlight the importance of having access to Black women's archives. youtube.com/watch?v=SSrm0b…

Mary Ann Shadd Cary was an antislavery activist, educator, lawyer, newspaper publisher, editor, and journalist. BWOA brings together Cary’s records that are digitized and nondigital collections, you can find them here: bwoaproject.org/shadd-cary/pap…

We learn and lead in community. Thanking the organizers of @BWOA_Project's Black Women's Digital Records Day @docmoodyturner, Kesla Elmore, Yolanda Mackey, Lauren Barnes, Carmin Wong, Sabrina Evans, Takina Walker, Kendra Napier-Fonash, Morgan Robinson of @BWOA_Project.

What a day, what a day….the generous, guiding, life-giving words and work of @damarishill, Jennifer Morris, Janel Moore-Almond, Sharia Benn, and @metaduewajones rethinking/remixing/rewriting on how we work within and beyond the archives…@BWOA_Project @DigBlk

Did you miss the spectacular Digitize Black Women's Records Day? You can watch the video now at bwoaproject.org/events/dbwrd20… @BWOA_Project

Starting now: Closing Reading by DaMaris B. Hill bwoaproject.org/events/dbwrd20… and youtube.com/watch?v=SSrm0b… @BWOA_Project

Janel Moore Almond, a leader in the PHL School District, talks about teaching conventions and the hidden curriculum—the gaps that primary records of Black organizing and writing fill in. She highlights the curriculum she creates with @CCP_org for this @BWOA_Project convening.

Now live with Artist, Scholar, Teacher, and Archivist Roundtable Discussion with Sharia Benn, Janel Moore & Jennifer Morris moderated by @DigBlk Scholar Lauren Barnes @BWOA_Project

#OTD in 1853 the 1st issue of The Provincial Freeman newspaper was printed in Windsor. It later moved to Toronto (1854) & Chatham (1855). Mary Ann Shadd was the driving force behind the paper. To read issues of the Provincial Freeman, please go to - ink.scholarsportal.info/pf

Did you know Elizabeth Catlett and Margaret Walker were roommates? Digitizing Black women’s papers always surfaces networks, collaborations, and influences notes Meta DuEwa Jones in her vibrant keynote for @BWOA_Project and @DigBlk convening!

Opening Keynote – Meta DuEwa Jones live now bwoaproject.org/events/dbwrd20… and youtube.com/watch?v=SSrm0b…

**Today’s the day**Join us today at 12:15 for a celebration of Black womens activist archives… @digblk?si=kGO1HOfiWQBEVeTr" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">youtube.com/@digblk?si=kGO…

Happening today from 12pm-3:15pm! Our friends at @BWOA_Project have put together a fantastic celebration of Black women's digitized repository collections. For details and to participate virtually head to: bwoaproject.org/events/dbwrd20…