Join us! #DigBlk is hiring a creative & forward-thinking Data Scientist to advance computational research & digital scholarship using Black archival collections & datasets and Black archives & critical AI w/ @ccp-org.bsky.social and @douglassday.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

Friends! We did it!! Transcribe 2026 saw more than 8,000 people transform 37,790 pages. We are 100% done! "There is a power in numbers and in union; because the many are more than the few." - Frederick Douglass, 1883

Transcribe Colored Conventions is aaaaalmost done! Transcribing: 98% complete Find the Names: 100% complete Only 36 pages left to transcribe. That's it! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

Douglass Day 2026 is 92% complete! Almost there! Let's gooooo!!!! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

A @zooniverse.bsky.social recap video from Douglass Day 2026, featuring footage from the in-person event at the University of Michigan library! Produced by our fantastic Adler Planetarium Manager of Creative Content, Meredith Stepien www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2U5... @douglassday.bsky.social

Douglass Day 2026 continues We are only 73% complete! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

Douglass Day 2026 continues! We are not done yet! Plenty of time to help transcribe and enrich the records of Black political organizing! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

Moving Douglass Day to a new school has been absolute joy! Our program was made possible by the work of 28 people at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. Plus an extraordinary show of support from the UCSB Chancellor, Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts and University Librarian. Already looking forward to 2027!

And we continue to celebrate #DouglassDay with our global transcribe-a-thon to make Black history open for all! Transcribe the Colored Conventions www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

Did you all see this #DouglassDay cake?!?!

Students at UMass Dartmouth loved learning about @ccp-org.bsky.social during @douglassday.bsky.social today. Huge thanks to the organizers for a great event. Students were excited to share their finds and took real pride in contributing to open access archives. I’m excited to read their reflections.

That is "our official #DouglassDay 2026 Award Winning baker!" Congratulations and thank you for the sweet additions to our day, Elisa! www.elisascakebythepound.com/about

The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

I’m transcribing Texas names for the Texas State Colored Convention in celebration of Douglass Day 2026 — honoring history through collective memory and community transcription. ✊🏾📜 #DouglassDay #AACAT-1870

Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of Humanities and Fine Art at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, greeting the 8000 people worldwide transcribing at #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social. Her research and leadership is legendary. We thank her for both.

Douglass was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century! Here he is in images with others. We love seeing this for #DouglassDay! @douglassday.bsky.social!

@douglassday.bsky.social this was such a wonderful event on our campus..... thank you for all the work involved

With Frederick Douglass looking on! #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social

Check out the work of @adamrothman.bsky.social! We're glad to see you at #DouglassDay! Check out his work! gufaculty360.georgetown.edu/s/contact/00...

The chancellor of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social greets worldwide transcribers for #DouglassDay. It is a full circle moment for us! He is the former president of the University where we launched. We thank chancellor Dennis and Eleni Assanis for their steadfast support and leadership.

Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of Humanities and Fine Art at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, greeting the 8000 people worldwide transcribing at #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social. Her research and leadership is legendary. We thank her for both.

We want to highlight the work of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Thanks for coming to Douglass Day. Thanks for your research and leadership! Please check out her work! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social www.hfa.ucsb.edu/deans-office

Douglass was the most photographed American of the nineteenth century! Here he is in images with others. We love seeing this for #DouglassDay! @douglassday.bsky.social!

We are SO grateful for the work of @sifill.bsky.social. Thank you for joining #DouglassDay this year! The 14th amendment is the heart of our democracy and we must defend it--and defend and define its history collectively. profiles.howard.edu/sherrilyn-if...

Images of Frederick Douglass on display in the 360 room of the Digital Scholarship Lab at the Main Library at MSU! #DouglassDay

I completed 95 name classifications today during today’s #DouglassDay! Thank you to @douglassday.bsky.social and @ccp-org.bsky.social for hosting another great event!

We want to highlight the work of Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts! Thanks for coming to Douglass Day. Please check out her work! www.beacon.org/The-Price-fo... @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

Collaborative name recognition on #DouglassDay ! Yes, it works on mobile 😉

We've been at it since 10am! Going strong at Penn State Libraries at University Park transcribing for Douglass Day 2026 ALSO: a pop up exhibit of Black history materials from Special Collections! @douglassday.bsky.social

Waving at our home base at @digblk.bsky.social! Loving seeing our other half transcribing alongside materials from Special Collections!

The fourteenth amendment is such a critically important topic for #DouglassDay this year.

The conventions started in PA and #DouglassDay transcribers finished them first too! You all are a powerful group! All of the Northeast conventions are done!

And here's a young volunteer carrying on the traditions of the Colored Conventions! The Equal Rights League of Ohio had a 15 year secretary of the Convention alongside a 70-year old boatman and one of the most important organizers of the state all lead together! @douglassday.bsky.social #DouglassDay

NORTHEAST and PENNSYLVANIA transcriptions are complete!!! #DouglassDay

Hi those of you at @digitalnewberry.bsky.social! We love to see the Black history materials you're showcasing!

Khadijah, A young volunteer helping bring Douglass Day to life. She’s 14 already dreaming about college and giving back to her community.This is what early access& representation look like @douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social #DouglassDay #AllRightsForAll #FutureLeaders #blackexcellence

We are doing @douglassday.bsky.social day with cake 🎂 and digital transcription! And of course a virtual visit from @profgabrielle.bsky.social.

Just transcribed a speech by Frederick Douglass: "Since the call for this public meeting was published in the newspapers of this city, those with whom it originated have been subjected to a perfect stream of unfair and unfriendly criticism." @douglassday.bsky.social #howarduniversity

Big news for #DouglassDay! We officially unveiled a stunning new gallery of Black History materials in Newberry Digital Collections at our event! From our stacks to your screen—check out the new gallery today: 📍 publications.newberry.org/gallery/?g=2...

Because the sweetest thing we can pass on is knowledge. Read. Rise. Resist from Seton Hall University Libraries. @douglassday.bsky.social @ccp-org.bsky.social #DouglassDay #DouglassDay #AllRightsForAll #coloredconventions

@douglassday.bsky.social Reporting from Mary Church Terrell Main Library at Oberlin #DouglassDay

Happy #DouglassDay from Montana State University!

For fans of both #BlackHistory and #TheGildedAge, a reference to T. Thomas Fortune! #DouglassDay @douglassday.bsky.social #transcription

@douglassday.bsky.social Happy Birthday to Frederick Douglass! #douglassday

@douglassday.bsky.social were happily transcribing away this Douglass Day! (And enjoying cake in honor of his bday)

When the @unlv.edu #DouglassDay team wins the winter Olympics 😍! We have more California conventions coming from the Occidental College team!

#Kenyon College comes through with transcription, cake, and books! They're finding organizing across states in these convention records!

Visit and teach DIGITAL EXHIBITS about the convention movement. Check out primary documents and data visualizations. Learn more about where delegates stayed, what they ate? See maps of wide newspaper coverage of conventions! coloredconventions.org/exhibits/ #allrightsforall @douglassday.bsky.social

first subject set complete! #DouglassDay