Colored Conventions Project is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more.
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June is Black Music Month! We're pleased to share MUSIC IN THE COLORED CONVENTIONS.
"As participants convened from near and far, music was an artistic and emotional expression of their religious, personal, and political sentiments." Learn more in our newest exhibit:
coloredconventions.org/music/
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
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!
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Free dissertation idea:
A history of Black women in the late c19 Colored Conventions. We worked *so* hard to find traces of antebellum women by reading against the grain, but there are SO MANY women in the 1870s-1890s. How does their activism show how the CCs set up the Niagara/NACW/club movements?
Way to go Philly friends!!!
Future US Congress Representative Rabb is a direct descendant of a Colored Conventions delegate named Amos Freeman.
He's also great student of history, and even spoke at the unveiling of our mural in Philly a few years back! www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ylE...
Colored Conventions
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"There is a power in numbers and in union; because the many are more than the few." - Frederick Douglass, 1883
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...
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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
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A win for the Philadelphia left: Chris Rabb has prevailed in the open primary to replace the retiring incumbent Dwight Evans, who was supporting a competitor.
Rabb is a shoo-in for the general election and to join Congress.
