Maya Cade, CCDI Scholar-in-Residence at the Library of Congress, lectures on tenderness in Black film and unveils her updated website, Black Film Archive.
The Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) will hold its virtual Awardee Project Celebration event, featuring CCDI's 2023 award recipients, on Thursday, April 4th.
In the fall of 2023, Ide Amari Thompson and Madeline Toombs participated in the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced Internship Program (AHHA) as interns with the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) team. During their 10-week remote internship, they explored how transcript data of the Library’s Mary Church Terrell Papers could enable new forms of storytelling …
Angelo State University, Trustees of Indiana University, and University of Houston-Downtown are the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative's 2024 Higher Education award recipients. DC Public Library, Hoboken Public Library, and Friends of Tijeras Pueblo are the Connecting Communities Digital Initiative's 2024 Libraries, Archives, Museums award recipients.
This post is an interview with Tameshia Rudd-Ridge and Jourdan Brunson of the Dallas, Texas Community Collections Grant project, If Tenth Street Could Talk, as part of the Library's Of the People blog series featuring awardees of the American Folklife Center’s Community Collections Grant program.
This post features an interview with Professor Lola Quan Bautista, who is leading the 2023 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant project, Celebrating CHamoru Nobenas, as part of the Library of Congress Of the People initiative supported by the Mellon Foundation.
In this guest post, Majestie Varnado, a Summer 2023 Connecting Communities Digital Initiative (CCDI) Junior Fellow, describes her project, "Heavy is the Hair: Evolution of African Hair in America from the 17th c. to the 20th c."