You can learn more about Archiving The Black Web’s work during “Activating the Archive,” a virtual conversation with The The Blackivists, Shorefront Legacy, and Honey Pot Performance this Sunday, 2pm CST. It’s FREE. RSVP here: sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/activating-the…

#icymi Archiving the Black Web, co-developed by @Makibaj and BergisJules has been awarded a $2.5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation to develop a education training program in web archiving that is aimed at collecting content documenting Black life, history, and culture.

#TenureTrackHustle Clark is part of Archiving The Black Web. They see an urgency to preserving Black Twitter in a world in which Black history and Black women’s cultural labor are undervalued — and where the future of Twitter seems unknown. Read about the initiative in Nieman Lab.niemanlab.org/2023/05/the-wo…

She's trying to archive Black Twitter. It's a delicate and imperfect task npr.org/2023/05/26/117…

✨I have a guest essay in the The New York Times !! It was a delightfully challenge to turn the basic puzzle of my new European Research Council (ERC) project, "Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies" Københavns Uni into a guest essay in New York Times Opinion

DocNow aims to provide a social media archiving model to serve the needs of archivists, researchers, and memory workers. mellon.org/grant-story/do…

She's trying to archive Black Twitter. It's a delicate and imperfect task npr.org/2023/05/26/117…

My Black Twitter is the best community I’ve ever been a part of I’ll never meet most of y’all, but I look forward to sharing life, love, laughter, and loss #onhere until the wheels fall off this mufucka

“Black Twitter: A People’s History” premiered yesterday on Hulu. It is so exciting to see how Black culture permeates the internet. Any thought on the documentary yet?

ICYMI here is the trailer for “Black Twitter: A People’s History” featuring some of our favorite people archiving the Black web! #TenureTrackHustle thot leedurr youtu.be/3-qkb4RCvSo?si…

We are conducting a survey of Black collecting institutions and Black memory workers to better understand web archiving practices and the current state of web archive collections. Survey link: surveymonkey.com/r/ZKD5CXN

Join Us on #AskAnArchivist Day! Wednesday October 16th at 3:00pm EST - 4:30 pm EST for a community call in partnership with Webrecorder to showcase and explore web archiving with Browsertrix! Register here: bit.ly/atbwebrecorder #ATBW #WebrecorderWednesday #Browsertrix

REMINDER: Join Us on #AskAnArchivist Day! Wednesday October 16th at 3:00pm EST - 4:30 pm EST for a community call in partnership with Webrecorder to showcase and explore web archiving with Browsertrix! Register here: bit.ly/atbwebrecorder

#ICYMI The recording of the ATBW X Webrecorder : Webarchiving with Browsertrix event is now available! youtu.be/qAni3lVZFNw?si…

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We are now accepting applications for our WARC School (Web Archiving School) Fellows, Instructors and Teaching Assistants- Deadline 1/31/2025: archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/ap… #atbw #webarchiving

WARC School is a paid ($5K) year-long online training program in web archiving, beginning with a grounding in-person orientation, workshops, knowledge and skill building activities. Follow the link for more details on participation archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/

We are still accepting applications for our WARC School (Web Archiving School) Fellows, Instructors and Teaching Assistants- Deadline 1/31/2025: archivingtheblackweb.org/warc-school/ap… #atbw #webarchiving

Happy Black History Month! Applications for our first year of WARC School have closed! Thank you to all who expressed their interest. We'll announce our Inaugural Cohort in the coming weeks!