Category Archives: Black History Month

Black History Month – Recommended Resource: Black Craftspeople Digital Archive

Posted on February 23, 2022 by jmkyoung

From 1619 to beyond, Black craftspeople, both free and enslaved, worked to produce the valued architecture, handcrafts, and decorative arts of the American South. The Black Craftspeople Digital Archive seeks to enhance what we know about Black craftspeople by telling … Continue reading →

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Black History Month – Recommended Resource: The Hiphop Archive

Posted on February 22, 2022 by jmkyoung

The Hiphop Archive and Research Institute at Harvard University curates all forms of Hiphop material culture including recordings, videos, websites, films, original papers, productions, conferences, interviews, publications, research, etc. While the Archive is a record of all specific-to-Hiphop activity, it … Continue reading →

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Black History Month – Recommended Resource: Black Film Archive

Posted on February 14, 2022 by jmkyoung

Black Film Archive celebrates the rich, abundant history of Black cinema. They are an evolving archive dedicated to making historically and culturally significant films made from 1915 to 1979 about Black people accessible through a streaming guide with cultural context.BFA … Continue reading →

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February is Black History Month

Posted on February 7, 2022 by jmkyoung

Check out these great informational resources: BlackHistoryMonth.gov  BlackPast.org – African American History Timeline Black History Month at NYPL Black History Month at BookBrowse Black History Month with MacKids Black History Month with Penguin Classroom Black History Month at Powell’s Legacy Washington’s … Continue reading →

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Black Freedom Struggle – an open access collection covering the ongoing fight for equal rights.

Posted on February 22, 2021 by jmkyoung

Black Freedom Struggle is an open access collection of selective primary source documents covering the ongoing fight for equal rights. The collection includes approximately 1,600 documents from six phases of the struggle to obtain Black freedom: Slavery and the Abolitionist … Continue reading →

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Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice

Posted on February 8, 2021 by jmkyoung

The Collins Memorial Library recently purchased the ebook, Black Lives Matter at School: An Uprising for Educational Justice. According to the book’s description, After a powerful webinar that included educators from ten cities explaining the many incredible actions they took … Continue reading →

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Celebrating Black History Month: Alisa Banks and her book, Wrongful Termination

Posted on February 3, 2021 by jmkyoung

Collins Memorial Library’s inaugural post celebrating Black History Month takes a look at artist Alisa Banks and her book, Wrongful Termination, which is part of the artists’ book collection in Special Collections N7433.4.B36 A48 2019. According to Anne Evenhaugen at … Continue reading →

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