Please join us for Digitize Black Women’s Records Day on Tuesday, March 26th, 2024 from 12:00-3:15 at Freeman Auditorium in the HUB.

This event will celebrate the defiant, creative, and audacious ways artists, scholars, teachers, and archivists have engaged with Black women’s records to tell more complete stories about Black women’s lives, histories, and movements for freedom and social justice.  

 The day will feature an opening keynote by poet-scholar Meta DuEwa Jones (author, The Music is the Muse: Jazz Poetry from the Harlem Renaissance to Spoken Word), followed by a roundtable discussion with Sharia Benn (Sankofa Theater), Janel Almond Moore (Philadelphia Public Schools), and Jennifer Morris (Smithsonian Anacostia Community Museum) and a closing reading by poet-scholar DaMaris Hill (author, A Bound Woman is a Dangerous Thing and Breath Better Spent; Living Black Girlhood). 

See the schedule below, and please bring your group, class, or friends for the entire event or one or more of the segments. *There will be plenty of time to engage the speakers, for audience questions, and discussion between the presenters. The event is free and open to the public.