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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Join us on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic presenters on critical questions on Black Kinship and AI!

Join us at the Who Owns Black Data? Conference on May 14th to hear from a lineup of dynamic experts on Black ancestry, memorialization, and descendant engagement! 🖤

Register here: wobd.blackbeyonddata.org

This spring, Keywords for Black Louisiana hosted an incubator on African and African diaspora history. Thank you to our Scholar Specialists who joined us to think deeply over the course of a Saturday about nation, ethnicity, Blackness and gender!

“Mannie Fresh, aka Elvis Freshley.”

Love rap and hip hop? Check out the NOLA Hip Hop and Bounce Archive, housed by Black Beyond Data partner organization @amistadresearch.bsky.social + the Tulane University Digital Library.

In this first part of Chapter Fourteen, we find Ali trying to resolve a quandary while Esi prepares to visit her mother and grandmother. The phrase “sort himself out,” which has no direct equivalent in Twi, Swahili, and Wolof, yielded lively discussions, and intriguing translations.

The chosen chapter, Fourteen, addresses the intergenerational disconnections caused by colonial and Western knowledge, education, and perspectives among women of the same family.

The Translation Lab sustains textual solidarities and radical witnessing. We are translating passages from Ama Ata Aidoo’s “Changes: A Love Story.”