Dear Colleagues,

Sharing this series of events: Who Owns Black Data: Slavery & Data, March 28-29, 2024, Baltimore, MD, USA (both in-person and virtual opportunities).

Jennifer

Please note: My work schedule is Monday through Thursday.

Jennifer Ferretti (she/her/hers)
Director, DLF

Digital Library Federation (DLF), a CLIR program

Based in Baltimore, MD, USA, the traditional territory of the Piscataway, Nentego (Nanticoke), and Susquehannock Peoples.

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Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2024 at 3:43 PM
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Subject: March 28 and 29: Who Owns Black Data

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Please join us for Who Owns Black Data: Slavery & Data hosted on March 28-29, 2024 in Baltimore, MD by the Black Beyond Data Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University. This historic convening will gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, activists and archivists to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the question: who owns and controls the Black historical and cultural record?

Thursday, March 28, 2024 – Morgan State University

10 am - 11 am

“Liberation Seeds: Baltimore Youth Centered Community Organizations Share Lessons Learned”

Community Workshop facilitated by Muse360 x African Diaspora Alliance

Martin D. Jenkins Hall, Room 512-514

REGISTRATION LINK: https://liberationseeds.eventbrite.com

Founder of Muse 360, Sharayna Christmas and Co-Founder of The Youth of The Diaspora, Moriah Ray, share their experiences working with youth and young adults teaching African Diaspora history. Both organizations use a variety of methods including the creative arts and funded international Diaspora exchanges. The organizers will share lessons learned and the impact of creating and implementing African-centered coursework as a mental health intervention for Black youth. Christmas and Ray will facilitate a guided conversation about the importance of youth-centered community organizing and bridging the gap between academic institutions and grassroots organizations.

Thursday, March 28, 2024

7:00pm–9:00pm

OMELORA: A Night of Films in Service to Our People ❖ Hosted by African Diaspora Alliance & Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest

Martin D. Jenkins Hall, Room 100

REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-african-diaspora-alliance-bfsfilmfest-present-omelora-tickets-858292194057

The OMELORA Film Festival is a night of films in service to our people. The preservation of stories throughout the Diaspora and the creative telling of them through film is part of what keeps us alive through time and space. These short films span different genres and time periods but together these filmmakers help us to understand the legacy of not only slavery and data but also resistance. These films are reminders that we have found ways to reclaim our power against all odds, connect with nature, and use our creativity to carve out new ways of being and living when nothing else seemed possible. Featuring artists and filmmakers from Baltimore, Chicago, and the Caribbean this festival brings answers to century-old questions. It is with great pride that we present these films to you and we ask that you watch them with an open mind and heart.

Elu Omelora, CoFounder of The African Diaspora Alliance

Moriah Ray, CoFounder of The African Diaspora Alliance

Nia Hampton, The Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest

March 29, 2024 - Johns Hopkins University

Public Symposium, 9 am to 5 pm

Scott-Bates Commons, Salons A&B

3301 N. Charles, Baltimore, MD

DATA - 9:15 to 10:30

SLAVERY - 10:45 to 12 noon

REPARATIONS - 2 pm - 3:15

NEXT STEPS - 3:30 - 4:30

Featuring:

10 Million Names

African Diaspora Alliance

Archipelagos of Marronage

Black Louisiana History Incubators

The Black Testimony Project

The Caribbean Digital

The Colored Conventions Project

The Criadas Project

First Blacks

Freedom on the Move

Haitian Revolutionary Fictions

Ink, Sweat & Tears

Keywords for Black Louisiana

Kinfolkology

New Generation Scholars

The Registro Project

Remains // An Archive

Smallpox and Slavery

Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project

The Texas Freedom Colonies Project

(Un)silencing Slavery

Underwriting Souls

The Nelson Hackett Project

Early Caribbean Digital Archive

and more!

March 29, 2024 - NoMüNoMü

Keynote Conversation & Bombazo

6pm to 9 pm

709 Howard St, Baltimore, MD

Please join us for a concluding keynote conversation led by Jennifer Morgan (New York University), Dorothy Berry (Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture) and Bilphena Yawhon (Archive Liberia) and a bomba workshop and bombazo hosted by Semilla Cultural.

Dorothy Berry, Digital Curator for the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, whose work has focused on the intersections of information discovery and African American history.

Jennifer Morgan, professor of history in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University and author of the prize-winning Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic and Laboring Women: Gender and Reproduction in the Making of New World Slavery.

Bilphena Yahwon, founder of Archive Liberia, a memory project aimed at reconstructing her personal memories and the memories of other Liberians.

Bomba Workshop with Semilla Cultural

Semilla Cultural is a non-profit organization developing and cultivating a community that embraces Puerto Rican culture and arts in the Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia region. We focus on raising cultural awareness by teaching and performing the Puerto Rican musical genres of Bomba and Plena, as well as educating the community as to the historical events that shaped this music. More information can be found here: https://semillacultural.org/#about-section

All events are free and open to the public. Join us!

Please abide by COVID protocols and enjoy our VIRTUAL experience if you are feeling ill or test negative! We will require masks be worn for the duration of all events; masks will be provided if you forget your own.

Registration Links

If you are attending the symposium on the 29th live and in person:

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/who-owns-black-data-slavery-data-tickets-807377205957

If you are attending the keynote and bombazo on the 29th live and in person: https://wobdkeynotebombazo.eventbrite.com

If you are attending the symposium AND/OR keynote/bombazo but VIRTUALLY: https://wobd2024virtualevent.eventbrite.com

Sponsored by the Black Beyond Data Ecosystem, the Diaspora Solidarities Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, Morgan State University, the Johns Hopkins University Krieger School of Arts and Sciences, Michigan State University, the JHU Center for Africana Studies, the JHU School of Medicine and the Center for Medical Humanities, the JHU Program in Latin American, Caribbean and Latinx Studies (LACLxS), Johns Hopkins University’s Sheridan Libraries and Museums, National Historic Publications and Records Commission, NoMüNoMü; African Diaspora Alliance, the New Generation Scholars/Muse360, and Black Femme Supremacy Film Fest.