Douglass Day
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DouglassDay.org | #DouglassDay Join us to celebrate the birthday of Frederick Douglass every February 14th. A day of love and collective action for Black history & archives!
Last day in the books! Our hearts are full and our minds are very tired. This year's Douglass Day is going to be so much fun. Save the date coming soon!
Douglass Day@douglassday.bsky.social · last wk.We are just wrapping up the first day of our summer planning meetings. Lots of new team members, ideas, and fun things to share. Douglass Day 2027 is on the way!
We are just wrapping up the first day of our summer planning meetings. Lots of new team members, ideas, and fun things to share. Douglass Day 2027 is on the way!
It is SUCH a dis/spiriting feeling to see the Colored Conventions in yet another Supreme Court opinion by Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson. See more: www.coloredconventions.org/about-records/
A rare summer post! 🎂 Are you teaching about the Black press next year? For the 200th anniversary of Freedom's Journal, we're going to have new ways for college/grad classes to collaborate. Lots of new resources too! Holler at us? Pls help spread the word? DM here or douglassdayorg at gmail
Pleased to chair the search committee for a Data Scientist to: "help shape research agendas that apply data science and digital humanities to archival collections while centering community engagement, ethical stewardship, and the human stories embedded in the data." Please share! ▶️ bit.ly/cbdr-ds26
Center for Black Digital Research 🖤 #DigBlk@digblk.bsky.social · 5mo agoJoin us! #DigBlk is hiring a creative & forward-thinking Data Scientist to advance computational research & digital scholarship using Black archival collections & datasets and Black archives & critical AI w/ @ccp-org.bsky.social and @douglassday.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/cbdr-ds26
Join us! #DigBlk is hiring a creative & forward-thinking Data Scientist to advance computational research & digital scholarship using Black archival collections & datasets and Black archives & critical AI w/ @ccp-org.bsky.social and @douglassday.bsky.social. Learn more: bit.ly/cbdr-ds26
Friends! We did it!! Transcribe 2026 saw more than 8,000 people transform 37,790 pages. We are 100% done! "There is a power in numbers and in union; because the many are more than the few." - Frederick Douglass, 1883
Douglass Day@douglassday.bsky.social · 6mo agoTranscribe Colored Conventions is aaaaalmost done! Transcribing: 98% complete Find the Names: 100% complete Only 36 pages left to transcribe. That's it! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
Transcribe Colored Conventions is aaaaalmost done! Transcribing: 98% complete Find the Names: 100% complete Only 36 pages left to transcribe. That's it! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
Douglass Day 2026 is 92% complete! Almost there! Let's gooooo!!!! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
A @zooniverse.bsky.social recap video from Douglass Day 2026, featuring footage from the in-person event at the University of Michigan library! Produced by our fantastic Adler Planetarium Manager of Creative Content, Meredith Stepien www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2U5... @douglassday.bsky.social
The Zooniverse hosts Douglass Day 2026
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Douglass Day 2026 continues! We are not done yet! Plenty of time to help transcribe and enrich the records of Black political organizing! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
The transcription process was an eye-opening experience. This collection is amazingly comprehensive. Very proud to have contributed to its access in a small way. Thank you #DouglassDay for coordinating this program
Moving Douglass Day to a new school has been absolute joy! Our program was made possible by the work of 28 people at @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social. Plus an extraordinary show of support from the UCSB Chancellor, Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts and University Librarian. Already looking forward to 2027!
Colored Conventions Project@ccp-org.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe chancellor of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social greets worldwide transcribers for #DouglassDay. It is a full circle moment for us! He is the former president of the University where we launched. We thank chancellor Dennis and Eleni Assanis for their steadfast support and leadership.
We want to highlight the work of Dr. Daina Ramey Berry, Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Thanks for coming to Douglass Day. Thanks for your research and leadership! Please check out her work! @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social www.hfa.ucsb.edu/deans-office
And we continue to celebrate #DouglassDay with our global transcribe-a-thon to make Black history open for all! Transcribe the Colored Conventions www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
Transcribe 2026 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.
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Sherrilyn Ifill@sifill.bsky.social · 6mo agoYes it’s Valentine’s Day. But it’s also the chosen birthday of Frederick Douglass who was born in 1818 on a plantation in Talbot County, Maryland. He escaped from slavery & rose to become the most eloquent and forceful voice for the abolition of slavery & for Black voting rights in the U.S.
This cake is specifically re: the one his mother brought for her "little valentine" bsky.app/profile/jeff...
Jeffrey Makala@jeffmakala.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe are gathered to help transcribe the Colored Conventions Records for #DouglassDay this year, with cake! 🎂 #furman Happy birthday #FrederickDouglass!
And we're still going! Happy birthday Frederick Douglass! Still LOTS to transcribe! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
Transcribe 2026 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.
zooniverse.org
Zooniverse@zooniverse.bsky.social · 6mo agoThe #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
OTD 1967, the Frederick Douglass stamp was issued as part of the Prominent Americans stamp series. Like many people born into enslavement, Douglass didn’t know his actual birthday, which was very difficult for him, and later in his life he chose February 14th to celebrate his birth. #DouglassDay
🍰 Find inspiration for your #DouglassDay bake in excerpts from the titles Frederick Douglass published throughout his life. 📙 On our blog: https://ow.ly/RsIZ50Yfjjl
Celebrate Douglass Day with the Library with our annual Transcribe-A-Thon! More info at delawarelibraries.libcal.com/event… Join us for birthday cake from The Cake Sisters and correspondence on February 14 from 12:30 - 2:30 PM! #douglassday #DouglassDay2026
Happy Douglass Day @douglassday.bsky.social and happy fertility festival time! Happy Lupercalia and Valentine's Day! Let's eat chocolate and have joy and celebrate each other and think about what love—in the grandest sense—really means. And what honoring love might really ask us to do.
Students at UMass Dartmouth loved learning about @ccp-org.bsky.social during @douglassday.bsky.social today. Huge thanks to the organizers for a great event. Students were excited to share their finds and took real pride in contributing to open access archives. I’m excited to read their reflections.
Got to participate in another awesome @douglassday.bsky.social this year! It’s always so soothing to transcribe, especially during the now we’re living through!
The #DouglassDay livestream may be over (with 18,725 transcriptions/name IDs submitted so far!) but there are still PLENTY of documents to transcribe, and names to find! The project will stay active until everything is finished, so let's keep up the momentum! www.zooniverse.org/projects/dou...
Transcribe 2026 | Zooniverse - People-powered research
The Colored Conventions Movement fought to ensure all rights for all. You can help tell this history.
zooniverse.org
I’m transcribing Texas names for the Texas State Colored Convention in celebration of Douglass Day 2026 — honoring history through collective memory and community transcription. ✊🏾📜 #DouglassDay #AACAT-1870
The chancellor of @ucsantabarbara.bsky.social greets worldwide transcribers for #DouglassDay. It is a full circle moment for us! He is the former president of the University where we launched. We thank chancellor Dennis and Eleni Assanis for their steadfast support and leadership.
