Join the Black Women’s Organizing Archive and Center for Black Digital Research on March 26 at 12:00 PM Eastern Time as they celebrate innovative ways to engage Black women’s activist archives during Digitize Black Women’s Records Day. The event will feature engaging discussions from speakers Meta DuEwa Jones, DaMaris B. Hill, Sharia Benn, Janel Moore-Almond, and Jennifer Morris.

Attendees may join in-person or virtually. The in-person activities will be held at the Freeman Auditorium, HUB, Penn State, University Park. Virtual attendees may watch the live-stream broadcasted on the Center for Black Digital Research’s YouTube Channel. See the schedule below for more information about the featured speakers and planned activities:

• Noon–12:15 p.m. Light Refreshments
• 12:15–12:30 p.m. Welcome
• 12:30–1:15 p.m. Opening Keynote
  • Meta DuEwa Jones, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• 1:15–1:30 p.m. Break
• 1:30–2:30 p.m. Artist, Scholar, Teacher, and Archivist Roundtable Discussion
  • Sharia Benn, Sankofa African American Theatre Company
  • Janel Moore-Almond, George Washington Carver High School
  • Jennifer Morris, Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum
• 2:30–3:00 p.m. Closing Poetry Reading
  • DaMaris B. Hill, Professor of Creative Writing, English and African American Studies, University of Kentucky
• 3:00–3:15 p.m. Closing Remarks

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