Who Owns Black Data?

Description

The Black Beyond Data Ecosystem at Johns Hopkins University and Morgan State University host "Who Owns Black Data: Slavery & Data." This historic convening will gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, activists, and archivists to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the question: Who owns and controls the Black historical and cultural record?

9 a.m. - 5 p.m., Public Symposium: Who Owns Black Data?

Featuring: 10 Million Names | African Diaspora Alliance | Archipelagos of Marronage | Black Louisiana History Incubators | The Black Testimony Project | The Caribbean Digital | The Colored Conventions Project | The Criadas Project | First Blacks | Freedom on the Move | Haitian Revolutionary Fictions | Ink, Sweat & Tears | Keywords for Black Louisiana | Kinfolkology | New Generation Scholars | The Registro Project | Remains // An Archive | Smallpox and Slavery | Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project | The Texas Freedom Colonies Project | (Un)silencing Slavery | Underwriting Souls

6 - 7 p.m., Keynote Convo featuring Jennifer Morgan, Bilphena Yahwon, and Dorothy Berry

7:30 - 9 p.m., Bomba Workshop featuring Semilla Cultural