Community Partners
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The Black School
We’re building a 21st century schoolhouse that will function as a community center for Black radical arts education program.
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Yagrumo
A creative agency for the production and co-management of social impact projects and initiatives. With over 30 years of experience in Public Relations, Visual Storytelling, Production of Cultural Events and Marketing Solutions, our team has managed important accounts and important communal initiatives. We build alliances between non-profits, industries, communities and agency groups in order to create social change.
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The Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture
The Avery Research Center’s mission is to collect, preserve, and promote the unique history and culture of the African diaspora, with an emphasis on Charleston, the South Carolina Lowcountry, and beyond. As a part of the College of Charleston’s Library system, the Avery Research Center’s archival collections, museum exhibitions, and public programming reflect these diverse populations as well as the wider African Diaspora. Our partner at the Avery Center is the director Dr. Tamara T. Butler who will host the DSL symposium in September 2024.
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LifexCode: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure
A grammar of refusal and a language of freedom for the [digital] humanities
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Afro-Latinx Lab
AN AUDIO/VISUAL/DIGITAL LABORATORY FEATURING AFRO-LATINX SCHOLARS DISCUSSING RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, QUEER IDENTITY, PERFORMANCE, POLITICS, AND MORE…
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Louisiana Museum of African American History
Based in New Orleans
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Moorland-Spingarn Research Center
MSRC is the largest and most comprehensive repository of books, documents, and ephemera on the global Black experience, including the personal and official papers of Kwame Nkrumah, Paul Robeson, Alain Locke, Mary Frances Berry, Dr. Benjamin Mays, Vernon Jordon, and Amiri Baraka, to name but a few from its over seven hundred collections. It was founded in 1914 as the Moorland Library and became a research center within Howard University in 1973, consisting of the University Archives Division, the Manuscripts Division, Library, Museum, and the Black Press Archive.
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Centro is a research institute that is dedicated to the study and interpretation of the Puerto Rican experience in the United States and that produces and disseminates relevant interdisciplinary research. Centro also collects, preserves, and provides access to library resources documenting Puerto Rican history and culture. They will take the lead on preserving the Frank Espada interviews and related site.
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This is the home archive of the late Frank Espada (preserved by his son Jason Espada in San Francisco, CA) which holds his lifetime of public, professional, and private papers, photos, ephemera, syllabi, and publications. We are working closely with the family and have secured the rights to the 130 Diaspora Project interviews in order to digitize, transcribe, translate, and digitally archive them at CENTRO.
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The Interdisciplinary Research Institute (III) is a unit of the Academic Dean of the University of Puerto Rico in Cayey that promotes research and academic creation through projects with regional, interdisciplinary, and applied approaches. The goal of the III is to generate knowledge that is relevant for the country while supporting the research management of the teaching staff and students of the UPR in Cayey. We will have a team of 3 fellows from the III working on the TSP project.
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The first of its kind in the region, the University of Puerto Rico Afro-diasporic Studies program, directed by Mayra Santos-Febres, aims to develop a minor and major in the Faculty of General Studies. It will offer courses in postcolonial studies, racialization, public humanities, culture, art, as well as classes on the African continent and the Afro-diaspora. We will work closely with this program and its instructors during the summer microlab in Puerto Rico.
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The MSU Broad connects people with art through experiences that inspire curiosity and inquiry. With a focus on the art of our time—in dialogue with the historical—the museum encourages engagement with timely issues of local relevance and global significance. Through a program that features local, national, and international artists, a permanent collection of over 10,000 works, and dynamic public programming, the MSU Broad advances the values of quality, inclusion, and connectivity that are paramount to Michigan State University.
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The LookOut! Gallery is a dynamic gallery and event space in the Residential College in the Arts and Humanities (RCAH) at MSU. Headed by Metis artist and Dean of the College Dylan Miner, the gallery space utilizes traditional and digital mechanisms to make the work accessible to a broad range of audiences. As part of our collaboration with RCAH we will have access to the gallery space for our artists-in-residence and will be able to work with them on the creation and distribution of risograph books based on each exhibit.
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Color Compton is an organization working with Compton youth to build community among people of color though history and art. Archivo Tres Diez microlab leader, Stephany Bravo, will work closely with Color Compton to develop the public arts workshops and arts materials for their public parks Compton 'tres por diez' exhibit.