Center for Black Digital Research (#DigBlk)
Home to the award-winning Colored Conventions Project, Douglass Day, and the Black Women’s Organizing Archive.
The Center for Black Digital Research, also known as #DigBlk, engages public and scholarly audiences in innovative and collaborative initiatives that bring the buried and scattered histories of early Black organizing to digital life.
As the co-director of #DigBlk at Penn State University, Dr. Foreman is committed to the Center’s core principles:
Digitize Black records
Excavate Black history
Dignify Black communities
Love Black people
The Center for Black Digital Research, also known as #DigBlk, engages public and scholarly audiences in innovative and collaborative initiatives that bring the buried and scattered histories of early Black organizing to digital life.
Through archive and pipeline building, #DigBlk is committed to preserving Black organizing histories in the long nineteenth century and to building future generations of Black scholars who advocate for social justice in higher education, repositories, museums, and beyond.
Like the Colored Conventions Project, #DigBlk is made up of graduate student leaders, librarians, satellite faculty, and arts and community partners who bring the scattered history of early Black organizing to digital life in a single, open source, collection and through digital exhibits. The Center’s graduate leaders, faculty directors and team have been recognized not only for their projects’ scholarly interventions and work in digital arenas, but also for creating structures that foreground shared leadership and just compensation, citation, and acknowledgment practices.
Click below to learn more about #DigBlk and explore innovative, collaborative projects it supports.
