The collection is 'invaluable' because white newspapers historically failed to document the everyday lives of Black Americans, said faculty member and journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones.
The collection is"invaluable" because white newspapers historically failed to document the everyday lives of Black Americans, Hannah-Jones told USA TODAY. She founded the Center for Journalism & Democracy that will launch at Howard in the fall.
The work is"hugely important because this is information about Black people globally that is owned and controlled by Black people," said Benjamin Talton, director of Howard’s Moorland-Spingarn Research Center. murder in 2020, when people began searching for information to better understand the fight for racial justice, some for the first time. asked to pause all of the digital projects at Harvard's Houghton Library and focus on highlighting material written by or about African Americans to rectify"This is cultural heritage and it needs to be made accessible to the people who are those inheritors,” said Berry, the digital collections program manager at the library.
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