Find our latest Spotlight Interview with Awa Diagne Lô on our Substack! The polyglot co-founder of the Translation Lab in the DSL encourages us to "be aware of the responsibility to speak, or to stay silent, and how powerful that choice is." Full interview: lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...

A new Substack post from Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil reflects on how powerful mentorship and recognizing the breadth of labor is in creating community-based digital humanities projects. lifexcode.substack.com/p/the-many-h...

Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!

Dive into the Ecosystem and meet Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil! K4BL’s Digital Curation Fellow tells us about scholarly confidence, her connections to the American Southwest, and why she starts all of her conference presentations with Langston Hughes. open.substack.com/pub/lifexcod...

Join us at the Who Owns Black Data? Conference on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic experts on Black ancestry, memorialization, and descendant engagement! 🖤 Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org

The WOBD conference is so excited to welcome an amazing roster of speakers for three panels + a keynote dialogue. Check out this list of powerhouse thinkers and doers shaping the conversation on Black data:

Join us on May 14th at Who Owns Black Vol. 2: The Past in Danger for a dynamic keynote conversation featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham, with an introduction by Kim Gallon. Register here❗️ www.eventbrite.com/e/wobd2-rece...

What: 𝐖𝐡𝐨 𝐎𝐰𝐧𝐬 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚? A̶r̶c̶h̶i̶v̶a̶l̶ ̵R̶e̶p̶a̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶ ̵The Past in Danger When: May 14, 2025 Where: Yale University

Everything that's going on won't stop me from being immensely proud to announce the launch of the 8th issue of archipelagos journal. In this special issue we highlight papiamentu and the ABD islands. With deep gratitude for our guest editor Margo Groenewoud. Enjoy! archipelagosjournal.org

This spring, Keywords for Black Louisiana hosted an incubator on African and African diaspora history. Thank you to our Scholar Specialists who joined us to think deeply over the course of a Saturday about nation, ethnicity, Blackness and gender!

“Mannie Fresh, aka Elvis Freshley.” Love rap and hip hop? Check out the NOLA Hip Hop and Bounce Archive, housed by Black Beyond Data partner organization @amistadresearch.bsky.social + the Tulane University Digital Library.

“I challenge myself to go to the archive and not presume anything. I don’t presume that Blackness is ‘X.’ What are people of African descent telling me about what it means to be African?” - Jessica Marie Johnson (Associate Professor, History, Johns Hopkins Univ. + Executive Director of LifexCode)

Black Beyond Data Predoctoral fellow and 2024-25 Lord Baltimore Fellow Michael Guy will be giving a talk TODAY, titled “Hampton: Resistance and Control on an Antebellum Maryland Plantation.” Registration Link in our Bio❗️

Mark your calendars! It’s here: the Spring 2025 LifexCode Research Celebration on April 22!!!🌻✨

Congratulations to K4BL members Jamya Davis, Nyla Williams, and Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil for representing the team at the Nineteenth Century Studies Forty-Sixth Annual Conference in New Orleans, LA this past weekend! 🌻✨

The Translation Lab sustains textual solidarities and radical witnessing. We are translating passages from Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Changes: A Love Story.”

Congratulations to Skylar Jones, K4BL Digital Assistant for Editorial Markup and sophomore at the University of Notre Dame! She and Aislinn Fernandes, also a UND sophomore, presented research on how socioeconomic background affects patient mobility during childbirth.

The second installment of the Who Owns Black Data? conference series is coming soon! Our initial offering took place at Johns Hopkins and this time around we are at Yale. Please join us! Mark your 📅🎉: May 13–14, 2025 @ Yale University

As the gov is bent on destroying our heritage and research institutions, our original question becomes even more urgent. Witherto the future of the Black historical record? Join @jmjafrx.bsky.social, @nadejdaishawebb.bsky.social, Sasha White and a powerhouse of talent in May. #wobdyale

SAVE THE 📅! Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.

Learn more about the artists we celebrated at the Baltimore Museum of Art for their works for Slavery in Motion with remains // an archive with a new in-depth interview on our Substack! lifexcode.substack.com/p/diving-dee...

Dive into the ecosystem and meet Cyntoya McCall with a new interview on our Substack! She told us about her passion for educating about the African diaspora in South America, her love for champeta music, and her secret talent as a roller skater! lifexcode.substack.com/p/dive-into-...

SAVE THE 📅! Prof. Adderley, Associate Professor of History at Tulane University, will give a talk titled “Aduma’s Colonial Archive: African Social Networks and Early Caribbean Abolition” for the Johns Hopkins Digital Humanities Workshop Series.

Missed the Slavery in Motion event featuring Remains // an archive, artists Julia Mallory, Romaine McNeil, Sha-Shonna Rogers, and Tatiana Esh, and Professor Jessica Johnson @jmjafrx.bsky.social ? You can read a recap now on our Substack: lifexcode.substack.com/p/recap-slav...

Upcoming event! Explore and engage with Keywords for Black Louisiana, a digital project which uses the scholarship of Black feminist scholars, historians, and public intellectuals to center Black and Indigenous life in French and Spanish colonial archives dating from 1714 to 1803.

Happening in ONE hour on Zoom: Data Stewardship and Black DH: Researching and Building K4BL! Register here: dataservices.library.jhu.edu/love-data-we...

We've been celebrating JH Love Data Week over on our Instagram! Learn why some of the members of Keywords for Black Louisiana love data, and tune in to their panel "Data Stewardship and Black DH: Researching and Building K4BL" TOMORROW, Feb 13 @ 10 AM ET! dataservices.library.jhu.edu/love-data-we...

“Should a Black woman’s dreams for New Orleans youth be sacrificed to pay debts owed by the Archdiocese of New Orleans related to the decades-long sex abuse scandal?”

Join Black World Seminar on February 11th, 12 - 2:00 pm, to celebrate the publication of Computational Humanities (2024), the first volume to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities.

@blkstudies-podcast.bsky.social Artists and curators Romaine McNeil, Tatiana Esh, Sha-Shonna Rogers, Julia Mallory, and Jessica Newby discuss the exhibit Slavery in Motion. Listen on most platforms or here on Apple Podcasts: tinyurl.com/4z8y6n8u

LifexCode members Dr. Nadejda Webb, Zaria Sawdijah El-Fil, Ellie Palazzolo, Akosa Obianwu, and Olivia Barnard will be presenting at JH Love Data Week, February 10-14!

Join Black World Seminar on February 11th, 12 - 2:00 pm, to celebrate the publication of Computational Humanities (2024), the first volume to intervene in debates on computation in the digital humanities.

Dr. Emily McGinn, DH Specialist at the Sheridan Libraries and one of LifexCode’s digital mentors, will be presenting on “Snack-Sized Digital Pedagogy” with the University of Virginia Library @uvalibrary on February 21! This event is virtual, FREE, and open to the public!

Save the 📅 ❗️ What: Roundtable Discussion | AI, Data & Ownership ✨ When: Feb. 20th. 2025 Who: Dr. Kim Gallon, Associate Professor, Brown Uni Dr. Alex Gil, Associate Research Faculty, Yale Uni

On January 17, Dr. Brooke Mai (LifexCode Project Manager) presented a paper entitled “‘Endangering the Life of the Mother: Social Implications of Medical Theories of Abortion in the 1830s” at the Huntington Library in Los Angeles, CA.

If you missed Slavery in Motion, the livestream recording is now available on the BMA youtube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=avQg...

Thank you to everyone who came to our Annual Lecture last month and to @elotroalex.bsky.social for presenting on such a thought-provoking talk! In case you missed it, the recording is now available online: edin.ac/3WkEnxz

The members of After the Storm, a seed lab of the Diaspora Solidarities Lab, part of the LifexCode ecosystem, & collective of Black and Latinx feminists, scholars, organizers, and teachers of the Greater Caribbean, published a blog post for Black Women Radicals this week!

On Jan 16 from 6:30-9 PM EST, join Remains // an archive at the Baltimore Museum of Art for a conversation on Slavery in Motion, a multimedia art collection interpreting the life of Molia, an African woman and mother who was enslaved in Westmoreland Parish, Jamaica in the 18th century.

Guess what? Who Owns Black Data is COMING BACK!!!! WOBDII: May 15, 2025, hosted by Yale University. Learn more: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org Sponsored by Black Beyond Data Ecosystem, a Mellon-funded Black studies computational humanities and social sciences lab.

Deadline is tomorrow for our graduate student conference "Entre lugares." CFP submission form below. Spread far and wide, and encourage your grads to submit. We'll give them a warm and supportive welcome at Yale, promise! Questions? Ask @anafblazquez.bsky.social docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Keywords for Black Louisiana Receives 2025 NHPRC Publishing Historical Records Grant !! Cheers to another year bringing enslaved and free Black voices out of the archive and into the hands of descendants. Read more at LifexCode.substack.com ‼️

Fall 2024 Lab Notes from the Directors of LxC are live. Check out lifexcode.substack.com. Be safe this winter break.

On January 16, 2025, from 6:30-9 PM EST, join the Remains // an Archive team at the Baltimore Museum of Art for a conversation on Slavery in Motion, a multimedia art collection interpreting the life of Molia.

The Caribbean Digital XI (2024) at UWI-Mona in Jamaica - Always a recharge to learn from and kick it with the smartest and most authentic folks in the game. Congratulations to @createcaribbean and my sis @schuylersglow!!!!!