If you’re a student at #kenyon #kenyoncollege or in the local #gambier or #mountvernon area, you should check out this exhibit. We also have a scav hunt going for @douglassday.bsky.social!

✨ On 2/13, join us as we host Douglass Day 2026! This annual celebration honors the legacy of Frederick Douglass and brings together volunteers to transcribe Black history. Find guides to help you bring Douglass Day into your college and K12 classrooms and register via the newsletter linked below.

If you are doing @douglassday.bsky.social with various history and digital humanities classes across the country, there is an info session to learn more this Friday, February 6, 2026, at 12 PM EST. Remember to register and come help us put our knowledge of cursive to good use! douglassday.org

Come to our @douglassday.bsky.social transcribe-a-thon next Friday (2/13) and transcribe digital records, print a physical postcard (with help from the Rutgers Scarlet Letterpress) and have a piece of cake. There's a virtual option too. 💌🖋️🍰Register at libcal.rutgers.edu/event/16187674

Get ready for the... 🎂 Great Douglass Day Bake Off! 🎂 How to enter: 1. Bake a birthday cake! 2. Decorate it! 3. Post a photo on here or IG to #DouglassDay Competition is going to be fierce! Learn more & see past winners: douglassday.org/bake-off/

We can triple the Colored Conventions Digital Collection! Since 2023, the CCP research teams & satellite partners have focused on specific regions resulting in 3K new CC documents! Come thru, host an event, watch the broadcast, & help bring this history to digital life! douglassday.org

Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today. - Preview event on Feb 6 - New teaching resources - Swag (trading cards are back!) open.substack.com/pub/douglass... And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!

We're SO proud to be hosting another Douglass Day on @zooniverse.bsky.social -- this is always an extremely meaningful event, and if you've never participated before this is a GREAT year to start! Registration via newsletter linked below.

We're thrilled for the 9th annual Douglass Day global transcribe-a-thon: a day of collective action for Black history! We'll transcribe records of the Colored Conventions movement—3K docs on deck! 100+ groups are hosting events, including 10 Penn State campus libraries ▶️ douglassday.org/penn-state/

Get Ready for Douglass Day 2026! Fresh newsletter out today. - Preview event on Feb 6 - New teaching resources - Swag (trading cards are back!) open.substack.com/pub/douglass... And there's still plenty of time to register for Douglass Day 2026. All Rights for All!

Shoutout to Alysha Press in the @unlv.edu Libraries’ Makerspace who created this 3D rendition of Saint Andrews AME Church, location of the first Colored Convention in the West. This is a key component of Frederick Douglass’ birthday cake - we are ready to win this year! @douglassday.bsky.social

We’re looking forward to participating once again in the annual @douglassday.bsky.social Transcribe-a-thon this February 13. More details on how to join us coming soon!

Our amazing Douglass Day 2026 stickers are now available for purchase and download! Click the link below and don't miss out on them!

Our amazing Douglass Day 2026 stickers are now available for purchase and download! Click the link below and don't miss out on them!

Newsletter out today! - Ways to get involved - Organizing kit - New swag on "All Rights for All" - Schedule for Feb 13 and later events douglassday.substack.com/p/douglass-d... Help us spread the word?

Save the date! Douglass Day 2026 "All Rights for All" Fri, February 13 Sign up today! DouglassDay.org Feat. the Colored Conventions Project! @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social

We are going to focus @douglassday.bsky.social in Feb 2026 on the Colored Conventions and their visions for citizenship. We need to tell a much fuller story about the 14th amendment. The history is crystal clear. The Constitution is crystal clear.

Save the date! Douglass Day 2026 "All Rights for All" Fri, February 13 Sign up today! DouglassDay.org Feat. the Colored Conventions Project! @ccp-org.bsky.social @digblk.bsky.social

Did you hear? Douglass Day 2026 is on the way! Friday, February 13, 2026 Sign up today: DouglassDay.org Oh, and this year we are featuring a massive *new* trove of rediscovered documents from our friends at the @ccp-org.bsky.social! 🎂

College communications put together this lovely piece on #DouglassDay at Swarthmore, featuring the exhibit by @caitlinest.bsky.social. Pretty cool, right @douglassday.bsky.social #GLAM 📚 www.swarthmore.edu/news-events/...

We're hiring at the @digblk.bsky.social! Hiring a "Data Scientist" (very broadly defined) to collaborate on the @ccp-org.bsky.social, @douglassday.bsky.social & emerging work on Black archives & AI. Can be remote! Info: bit.ly/cbdr-ds We're reviewing apps this month. Help us spread the word?

Unfortunately @zooniverse.bsky.social is still down, and may be that way all of today. status.zooniverse.org If you're looking for something to #transcribe, may I suggest helping the @douglassday.bsky.social folks get through the rest of their LoC data at crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/af...?

Hosted a #DouglassDay transcription event today, working with digitized materials at the Library of Congress. Here's a great example: an abolitionist songbook! #slaveryarchive crowd.loc.gov/campaigns/af...

Should we host a 14th amendment symposium on #DouglassDay and then transcribe NAACP and LDF papers with LOC and @douglassday.bsky.social? What do folks think?

Discover connections between Frederick Douglass & Cork when using a book as object approach & focusing on paratextual & textual elements: “Examining a Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass” libguides.ucc.ie/displayingha... #DouglassDay @theriversideucc.bsky.social @ucclibrary.bsky.social

#DouglassDay Someone asked for the cake recipes, so here's mine: 1 brownie mix (I use Ghirardelli) 6oz fizzy root beer 1 t cinnamon 1 t ginger 1/2 t cloves 1/4 t mace bake at 350F until cupcake-ish.

Celebrating #DouglassDay in the Abolition Lab at Knox today! We had a great time transcribing and tuning into the virtual programming! And of course, there were plenty of snacks 🎊🥳🎊

This is what an award winning cake looks like! #douglassday

Was thrilled to participate in a record-breaking #douglassday! "If there is no struggle, there is no progress"

Look who was one of the winners of the #DouglassDay cake competition! @drericaoneil.bsky.social

📣 Douglass Day Update! We've hit 686 pages with 476 in progress, even and more to review & cite! Although this is the end of our Douglass Day celebration, please keep the momentum going by transcribing at crowd.loc.gov. Every contribution helps to make history! #DouglassDay2025 #Youmakehistory

So many people are participating in the #DouglassDay transcription project that the servers are crashing! It's so great.

Happy birthday, Frederick Douglass!!! I baked you a cake! The DH team at ASU's Lincoln Center for Applied Ethics is enjoyjng some chocolate cherry deliciousness as we transcribe Black historical documents for #DouglassDay2025! #DouglassDay joy!

DCD at Coastal Carolina checking in for #DouglassDay! cc: @douglassday.bsky.social

What does Douglass Day mean to Tonika Berkley? #DouglassDay

Stop what you are doing and look at this cake that @drericaoneil.bsky.social made for #DouglassDay2025 #DouglassDay

The cake has arrived!! Happy birthday Frederick Douglass! Cake designed and baked and decorated by the talented and amazing @drericaoneil.bsky.social! #DouglassDay #DouglassDay2025

Happy #DouglassDay!! This is my favorite celebration, and I always find time to transcribe a little bit. Right now, the webpage is crashed, but this is a whole day event so I’m patiently and eagerly waiting for it to work again♥️

Penn State Hazleton enjoying library-based Douglass Day afternoon with baked goods, pizza, crafts, nice people, Student and faculty transcribers. Thanks to Lilly Fitt and PSU Libraries! #DouglassDay

Our #DouglassDay event this year is the best attended yet, despite competing with the Eagles Parade.

#Douglassday: F. Douglass, 1855: “Children have their sorrows as well as men and women, and it would be well to remember this in our dealings with them. Slave-children are children, and prove no exceptions to the general rule.”

Photograph of Sojourner Truth with caption: I sell the shadow to support the substance. #DouglassDay At the Newberry Library

Looking like Library of Congress is almost up and running again! Stay tuned!

You can transcribe documents on crowd.loc.gov any time, not only today, so check back later when the site is hopefully back up.

Broadside with title The Black Law Champion printed in 1854. #DouglassDay collection presentation at Newberry Library

#DouglassDay celebration at Westfield State University!

"we still linger in the blight of an extinct institution" - dramatic reading #DouglassDay of Frederick Douglass giving his speech "Why hold a colored convention". Mmm-hmmm!

Working on transcriptions for #DouglassDay, but for anyone having issues w/the Library of Congress site, this collection from the National Museum of African American History and Culture at the Smithsonian can be a place to direct energy! transcription.si.edu/project/59479 #MSUDH @dhmsu.bsky.social