It is SUCH a dis/spiriting feeling to see the Colored Conventions in yet another Supreme Court opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. See more: www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/

A rare summer post! 🎂 Are you teaching about the Black press next year? For the 200th anniversary of Freedom's Journal, we're going to have new ways for college/grad classes to collaborate. Lots of new resources too! Holler at us? Pls help spread the word? DM here or douglassdayorg at gmail

Pleased to chair the search committee for a Data Scientist to: "help shape research agendas that apply data science and digital humanities to archival collections while centering community engagement, ethical stewardship, and the human stories embedded in the data." Please share! ▶️ bit.ly/cbdr-ds26

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...

Q: what's easy, fun, and makes a real contribution to our understanding of history? A: @douglassday.bsky.social!

The transcription process was an eye-opening experience. This collection is amazingly comprehensive. Very proud to have contributed to its access in a small way. Thank you #DouglassDay for coordinating this program

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!

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

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...

This cake is specifically re: the one his mother brought for her "little valentine" bsky.app/profile/jeff...

And we're still going! Happy birthday Frederick Douglass! Still LOTS to transcribe! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...

OTD 1967, the Frederick Douglass stamp was issued as part of the Prominent Americans stamp series. Like many people born into enslavement, Douglass didn’t know his actual birthday, which was very difficult for him, and later in his life he chose February 14th to celebrate his birth. #DouglassDay

🍰 Find inspiration for your #DouglassDay bake in excerpts from the titles Frederick Douglass published throughout his life. 📙 On our blog: https://ow.ly/RsIZ50Yfjjl#DouglassDay

Celebrate Douglass Day with the Library with our annual Transcribe-A-Thon! More info at delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event… Join us for birthday cake from The Cake Sisters and correspondence on February 14 from 12:30 - 2:30 PM!#douglassdaya#DouglassDay202626

Happy Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social and happy fertility festival time! Happy Lupercalia and Valentine's Day! Let's eat chocolate and have joy and celebrate each other and think about what love—in the grandest sense—really means. And what honoring love might really ask us to do.

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.

Got to participate in another awesome @douglassday.bsky.social this year! It’s always so soothing to transcribe, especially during the now we’re living through!

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

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.

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

Thank you for leading our #DouglassDay event!

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...

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

“…and public education is especially necessary, as the ignorant are always liable to be led astray by the arts of the demagogue.” 200 years later this is still biting us on the bum. But (lol) I’m enjoying the cadence of speech and learning about the Colored Conventions. ❤️📝 @douglassday.bsky.social

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!

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.

first subject set complete! #DouglassDay

If you live in Chicago you should be eating Elisa's Cake by the #Pound our official #DouglassDay baker for the past several years!

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...

NORTHEAST and PENNSYLVANIA transcriptions are complete!!! #DouglassDay

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!

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

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'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

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

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

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

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

Happy #DouglassDay from Montana State University!