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The “Black Kinship and AI” panel features Kim Gallon (Brown University), Christopher Dancy (Penn State University), Nadejda Webb (Johns Hopkins University) and Jonathan Baynes (EINDEVR).

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The “Ancestry, Genealogy, and DNA” panel features Melanie Maldonado (PROPA, Puerto Rico Sites of Slavery), Vincent Brown (Harvard University), Matthew Smith (UCL Legacies of British Slavery), and Richard Cellini (Harvard University).

Panel 3: Black Kinship & AI featuring Jonathan Baynes, Christopher Dancy, Kim Gallon, and Nadejda Webb

Keynote Dialogue featuring Tamara Lanier, Yeshimabeit Milner, Alondra Nelson, and Marisa Parham (intro by Kim Gallon)

We hope to see you there on May 13-14! wobd.blackbeyonddata.org/yale/

Panel 1: Archival Reparations featuring Cheryl Beredo, Connie Bell, Dorothy Berry, and Kathe Hambrick (moderator: Marlene Daut)

Panel 2: Ancestry, Genealogy, and DNA featuring Vincent Brown, Richard Cellini, Melanie Maldonado, and Matthew Smith (moderator: Alexandre White)

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The symposium is open to the public throughout the day. If you would like to also join us for the reception and keynote dialogue, please register using this link:

Originally we planned to hold the symposium solely focused on the issue of reparations, but these new dangers prompted us to pivot *in medias res*, without sacrificing the original focus.

The past is under threat from a variety of forces, including the commodification of data, the privatization of knowledge, and more recently, a concerted effort to erase or rewrite history in ways that serve the interests of those in power.

Now the past is facing new dangers, and the question of ownership and control over the Black historical and cultural record is more urgent than ever.

In our second installment we continue our efforts to gather a distinguished group of scholars, librarians, and archivists from the Americas and Africa to discuss, elucidate, and provide public answers to the question: Who owns and controls the Black historical and cultural record?

Thank you to our partners and the Keywords Community Circle and Advisory Board for your support.

Keywords for Black Louisiana is an NHPRC funded project in the LifexCode ecosystem. Learn more keywordsforblacklouisiana.org.

Community Engagement Fellow Cyntoya McCall (Tulane University), , our co-project managers. Associate Editors Olivia Barnard (French) and Kaillee Coleman (Spanish) offered final remarks. THANK YOU XULA Honors Program for partnering with us; Dean Shearon Roberts we are so inspired and grateful!