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Join us in celebrating the life and success of Frances E.W. Harper by helping to transcribe her records and preserve her enduring legacy! By joining the transcribe-a-thon, you will make Harper’s letters, essays, newspaper pieces, and published writing fully searchable and freely available worldwide.
November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Harper 200 Symposium: What a weekend! Frances E. W. Harper got her due-and in so many ways she who mixed her words and actions into a legendary rue was honored in ways worthy of her. Thanks to everyone who made this weekend special! For those who couldn't join, stay tuned for recordings coming soon!
October 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Join us Friday 9/26 at 8:30 AM EST for this week's Feedback Friday session! This session will focus on strategies for getting great teaching evaluations from your students! Come and lend your experience to our community! #FacultyOfColor #BlackInTheIvory #BIPOCFaculty #FacultyDevelopment #digblk
September 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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August 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Welcome to #DigBlk News! This paper highlights just some of the amazing, and informative, Colored Conventions Project Digital Exhibits. These exhibits allow us to take a step back into history and gain insight into various key events. Here are just 5 of the amazing exhibits you can explore!
August 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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Panel 4 – New Perspectives in Harper Studies
Brigitte Fielder
Katherine Adams
Robert Arbour
Amardeep Singh
Moderator: Eunice Toh

Full Sunday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Panel 4 – New Perspectives in Harper Studies Sunday, Sept 21 • 3:00–4:30 pm -- Brigitte Fielder, “Children’s Nature Poetry and Harper in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries” -- Katherine Adams, “’The Threshold of a New Era’: Frances E. W. Harper and the Political Economy of Freedom” -- Robert Arbour, “The Air of Emancipation in Frances Watkins Harper’s Anti-slavery Poetry” -- Amardeep Singh, “Frances E. W. Harper’s Afropessimist Poetics” -- Moderator: Eunice Toh
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Panel 3 – Reconstructing Frances Harper with
Jim Downs
Ariana Nadia Nash and Jacob Sloan
Lauren Barnes
Moderator: Courtney Murray Ross

Full Sunday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Panel 3 – Reconstructing Frances Harper Sunday, Sept 21 • 11:30 am–1:00 pm -- Jim Downs, “‘I Became Acquainted with Her History’: Iola Leroy as the First Black History of Freed People during the Civil War and Reconstruction” -- Ariana Nadia Nash and Jacob Sloan, “Frances Harper’s Social Gospel: Radical Reconstruction & Radical Religion in Frances Harper’s ‘Moses: A Story of the Nile’” -- Lauren Barnes, “Rupturing Erasure: Reimagining Archival Practices through Frances Ellen Watkins Harper” -- Moderator: Courtney Murray Ross
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Panel 2 – Harper and Black Feminism with:
Sabrina Evans
Nazera Sadiq Wright
Cora Anthony
Marlas Yvonne Whitley
Moderator: Denise Burgher

Full Saturday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Panel 2 – Harper and Black Feminism Saturday, Sept 20 • 4:45–6:15 pm -- Sabrina Evans, “A Conversazione of Their Own: Placing Frances E. W. Harper in Community with Fellow Black Women Organizers” -- Nazera Sadiq Wright, “Frances E. W. Harper, Gertrude Bustill Mossell, and the Mercantile Library of Philadelphia” -- Cora Anthony, “Where Credit is Due: Black Women Writers Cite Frances Harper, 1880-1900” -- Marlas Yvonne Whitley, “Frances Harper’s Black Feminist Reconfigurations” -- Moderator: Denise Burgher
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Keynote Panel with:
Martha S. Jones
Eric Gardner
Sherita L. Johnson
Moderator: P. Gabrielle Foreman

Full Saturday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Keynote Panel Saturday, Sept 20 • 2:15–4:35 pm --Martha S. Jones, “Orphaned: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper and Baltimore’s ‘Colored’ Orphan Asylum” -- Eric Gardner, “Frances Ellen Watkins, Ohio, and the Importance of the Local” -- Sherita L. Johnson, “Tracking Harper” (tentative title) -- Moderator: P. Gabrielle Foreman
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Panel 1: Harper’s Canon: Short Fiction, Radical Poetics, and Oratory with:
Brandi Locke
Melissa J. Lingle-Martin
J.P. Sloan
Leslie K. Dunlap

Full Saturday Schedule: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
Panel 1: Harper’s Canon: Short Fiction, Radical Poetics, and Oratory Saturday, Sept 20 • 11:30 am–1:00 pm -- Brandi Locke, “Spiritual Beauty: Auratic Race Womanhood and Literary Experimentation in Frances Harper’s ‘The Two Offers’” -- Melissa J. Lingle-Martin, “The ‘earnest’ and ‘restless eye of Agitation’ and Monumental Vision in Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s ‘The Triumph of Freedom–A Dream’” -- J.P. Sloan, “Bitter Shrieks of the Dispossessed: Black Noise and the Activist Poetics of Frances E.W. Harper’s ‘The Slave Mother’” -- Leslie K. Dunlap, “‘Weep for Your Sons’: Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Appraisal of White Women”
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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We're just one month away! Here is a sneak peek at the 5️⃣ featured panels. More information at: coloredconventions.org/harper-200-s...
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Frances E. W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward Headshots of all featured panelists. Presented by the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and the Africana Research Center.
August 19, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Coming to Eisenhower Auditorium at PSU on September 19!

The Artistry and Activism of Frances Ellen Watkins Harper brings Harper’s legacy to life for a new generation—reclaiming history, honoring resilience, and celebrating artistic activism.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW: cpa.psu.edu/events/franc...
August 13, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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"Dear Colleagues, Friends, and Family,
We are excited to be hosting an in-person symposium on September 19-21–just days before Frances Harper’s 200th birthday. We invite you to attend in person!"
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Flyers for symposium: Frances E. W. Harper 200: Looking Back, Moving Forward, 1825-2025. Friday, Sept. 19-Sunday, Sept. 21. Eisenhower Auditorium and Foster Auditorium. Hosted by the Center for Black Digital Research/#DigBlk and The Africana Research Center. Learn more and register at bit.ly/harper-200-symposium or by scanning the QR code.
August 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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📣Tune in to the “Digital Blackness” panel at #ACH2025 today (06/11) at 7p ET!📣

Panel will feature presentations from #DigBlk’s @dejaworkman.bsky.social, @weygudey.bsky.social‬, & @dburgher.bsky.social, and chaired by @jimccasey1.bsky.social‬.

Register at ach2025.ach.org/en/
June 11, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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#DigBlk will be presenting/facilitating at 2 #ACH2025 sessions!
Tune in to the “Digital Blackness” panel on Wed 06/11 @7p ET, on @douglassday.bsky.social, @ccp-org.bsky.social & #THiCC projects & the "What the NEH ODH Has Inspired" Special Session w/ @scholarslab.bsky.social on Fri 06/13 @11:30a ET!
June 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Here at CBDR, our work is driven by teams of smart, talented, and dedicated students. Meet Keon, a #digblk scholar and PHD candidate working with the Colored Conventions Project. In addition to being a history research scholar at CBDR, he is a Bunton-Waller Fellow! Thank you Keon for all your work!
May 16, 2025 at 5:46 PM
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Meet Lauren Barnes, an involved and hard-working #digblk scholar! With her experience as a dual title PHD in English and African American and Diaspora Studies, Lauren focuses on identity and literature- specifically within the areas of race and diaspora. Join us in acknowledging Laurens hard work!
May 2, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Here at CBDR, we highly value the involvement, dedication, and achievements of our hard working students. Meet Eden! A #digblk scholar who strongly embodies the values of involvement, dedication, and achievement. Eden is a PHD student in Geography and African Studies, and a valued CCP contributor!
April 4, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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Here at CBDR, our students are dedicated, hard-working, and dutifully involved in their communities. Meet Kelsa, a #digblk scholar that boldly represents these qualities. Kelsa is a #digblk scholar, dual PHD student in English and African American and Diaspora Studies, and a Bunton-Waller Fellow!
March 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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Here at CBDR, we strongly value the amazing work of the students who dedicate their time, energy, and immense knowledge to our center. Meet Carmin, one of the many hardworking students here at CBDR. Carmin is a #digblk scholar and PhD student working with the Black Women's Organizing Archive!
March 21, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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Welcome to CBDR! We’re making history more accessible, one project at a time. From the Colored Conventions Project to Douglass Day to the Black Women’s Organizing Archive, we’re shining a light on Black organizing. Take a look at some of the amazing projects that make our work possible! #digblk
March 19, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Here at CBDR, our work is made possible by the incredible students who bring passion to our projects! Meet Courtney Murray, a committed #DigBlk scholar. Her work is helping to push the boundaries of digital scholarship. Join us in celebrating Courtney! Thank you for your amazing contributions!
February 19, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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Meet Chaunece Reed, a dedicated #DigBlk scholar and master's student contributing to the Colored Conventions Project! Her work helps uncover and amplify the history of Black organizing and activism. Join us in celebrating Chaunece! Congrats Chaunece, and thank you for your amazing contributions!
February 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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Here at CBDR, our work wouldn't be possible without the amazing group of students dedicated to our projects! Meet Takina, one of our many dedicated students, and the first to be featured in our new student highlight series! Congrats Takina, and thank you for all your work!
February 3, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Welcome to the official CBDR Bluesky account! As we get started with our social media journey, remember to stay connected with us across our accounts! Keep up with the latest updates, events, and exciting projects by following us on BlueSky, and Instagram and checking out the Linktree in our bio!
January 24, 2025 at 9:57 PM