Q: what's easy, fun, and makes a real contribution to our understanding of history?
A: @douglassday.bsky.social!
Douglass Day 2026 continues
We are only 73% complete!
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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
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
Transcribe Colored Conventions is aaaaalmost done!
Transcribing: 98% complete
Find the Names: 100% complete
Only 36 pages left to transcribe. That's it!
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And we're still going!
Happy birthday Frederick Douglass!
Still LOTS to transcribe!
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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!!!!
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A rare summer post! š
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
Douglass Day 2026 continues!
We are not done yet! Plenty of time to help transcribe and enrich the records of Black political organizing!
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Douglass Day
The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.
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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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!
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The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.
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
