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Staff and students at Penn State Altoona honored the birthday of noted abolitionist and orator Frederick Douglass by participating in a digital transcription event hosted by the Penn State Center for Black Digital Research. Gathering Wednesday afternoon in the Eiche Library, volunteers worked to transcribe handwritten letters and writings from the extensive collection left by […]
Fellows are selected for their exceptional talent and creativity — and the promise of even greater things to come.
Historian Jessica Marie Johnson leads several teams tapping into the power of datasets to uncover new truths about Black history
Two years ago, Kate Masur of Northwestern University started documenting the radical importance of the Colored Conventions movement.
New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities Credit: Getty Images July 15, 2021 There is a general belief that data is objective, neutral, and therefore accurate. "Numbers don't lie," goes the oft-repeated maxim. But what about the people interpreting the data: can individuals really be objective or neutral? Who gets to decide which data is important? And what about the stories and trut...