A massive effort is underway at Howard University to digitize thousands of Black newspapers in an effort to make the material more accessible and provide primary sources at a time when some are trying to whitewash history.
Historically Black colleges and universities like Howard have similar archives often with material about the school itself and the surrounding community.and public libraries may not have the resources or infrastructure to launch major digitization projects like this.
"It's incredibly important for predominantly white institutions to invest the time and energy to make their Black materials accessible," Berry said. "Having these archives readily available means that regular people, teachers, school children, families can get access to that information that is being increasingly restricted from their public education," Hannah-Jones said. "Having access to these archives and other works is going to be an important way to fight these memory laws."
Conservatives have pushed to stop K-12 public schools from using federal funds to teach the project as well as the teaching of
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