Events

Images of Blackness on the Web: Representation and Reclamation in Digital Culture

Tuesday, March 24, 2026, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT
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Digital Archives Ecosystems

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT
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Archive Careers & Opportunities for Growth

Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT
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The Freedom School 2026 Series: Digital Literacy & Cultural Stewardship is dedicated to strengthening digital literacy, advancing archival practices, and safeguarding the web as a vital site of cultural memory. As our histories, identities, and movements increasingly live online, this series convenes scholars, information professionals, technologists, and community members to critically examine how we engage with, interpret, document, and preserve digital culture.

Across several dynamic sessions, participants will explore visual analysis, representation, and power in digital spaces, preservation frameworks, emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, and the evolving practices shaping web archiving and digital stewardship.

This series frames cultural stewardship as more than digital access or curation—it is an intentional practice grounded in critical analysis, ethical responsibility, technological fluency, and long-term preservation. Whether you are a creative, student, educator, memory worker, or technologist, the Freedom School 2026 Series offers practical tools and accessible frameworks to help you critically analyze, preserve, and responsibly shape our digital present for future generations.

 

Preserving & Web Archiving Digital Collections

Date: August 18, 2025 at 2:00pm EDT
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How to Build Web Archive Collections

Date: September 9, 2025 at 2:00pm EDT
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Digital Storage, Backups & Repositories

Date: October 8, 2025 at 2:00pm EDT
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Web Archiving Tools

Date: July 16, 2025 at 2:00pm EDT
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Archiving Your Website

Date: July 21, 2025 at 2:00pm EDT
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Archiving Social Media

Date: August 6, 2025 at 2:00pm EDT
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A Black History of the Web and Archiving Our Existence

Panelists will discuss how Black people have contributed to the development of the Internet, including contributions to the Internet economy, the social and cultural fabric of the web, and technology innovations. From contributing the nascent internet to Black blogging and the development of Black social media platforms, innovations from Black sex workers, online organizing around police brutality and other justice-related issues, and the dominance of Black cultural expression on the web, the contributions from Black people to the development of the Internet and online culture is undeniable. Our distinguished panelists will share their knowledge as scholars, activists, and memory workers in a conversation that will help to ground us in the Black history of the web as we explore the possibilities for archiving these current and future histories. Panelists will also offer their thoughts on the possibilities and the challenges for archiving Black people’s online experiences.

Online
April 30, 2025 11:00 AM EDT

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Towards Realizing Safety for Black People on the Web

Archiving the Black Web presents a keynote conversation on the experience of Black people using social media platforms. Can decentralization and care-centered moderation that is customized to address the unique issues Black people face online offer enough protections? What is safety online anyway? And what are the limitations and possibilities of our efforts to protect ourselves in an increasingly toxic social media environment where the ability to control what content we see is replaced by algorithms designed to monetize our attention? This keynote conversation will explore how Black people navigate the changing social media landscape, new trends and practices for building a safer online experience, and what the future could look like for the Black experience on social media platforms. 

Auburn Avenue Research Library
April 30, 2024 6–9 PM EDT

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Join us March 26, 2025 at 3:00 pm EDT as we host the first of our 2025 ATBW Workshop Series!

In this webinar, ATBW will showcase our current web archiving projects, celebrate the launch of WARC school, and highlight the importance of archiving Black history online! We encourage all Archivists, Researchers, and Historians working with Black Collections or archiving the Black Web to attend! 

RVSP Here: https://bit.ly/atbw-workshop-1

Collecting, Researching, & Writing While Black Conference
Auburn Avenue Research Library
November 14, 2024 10:00-11:45 AM

Recording available here.

Calling all Archivists, Researchers, and Historians working with Black Collections or archiving the Black web.

Join Us on #AskAnArchivist Day! Wednesday, October 16th at 3:00pm EST – 4:30 pm EST for a community call in partnership with Webrecorder to showcase and explore web archiving with Browsertrix powered by Webrecorder!

This event will be moderated by Zakiya Collier, Camille Lawrence, and Lorena Ramirez-Lopez.

Recording available here.