Just a few weeks after I started working with the Reckonings Project as a research assistant, I got to be a part of the team representing Reckonings at the Jazz Square Celebration that happened on September 27 and 28, 2024. Those two days of celebration were dedicated to the legacy and influence of jazz on
In recent years, community archiving workshop tutorials have gained popularity as institutions and universities, and community members work to demystify archiving for the public. Designing a community archiving workshop is a learning process marked by trial and error. A community archiving workshop is an education tutorial on the best practices to keep, store, and preserve
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I’m Shavaun, a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology. I feel so fortunate to be a part of the Reckonings Project. It aligns with one of my research interests – recovering lost Black narratives, experiences, and histories through the sociological lens although my work is, increasingly, becoming transdisciplinary. This is a taste
This summer I have had the pleasure of working on the Reckonings Project which is a local history platform for the community-archivist. The main goals of the project were highly attractive as it seeks to empower community archivists through digital scholarship, civic engagement, and community-library-university partnerships. In particular, the focus on the documentation and commemoration
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Over the past year, the Reckonings project has connected Northeastern students and faculty with community partners to reflect upon, and co-create, historical narratives that center Black people, indigenous people, and people of color. I started working on the Reckonings project during the summer of 2021, and since then, I have participated in many productive developments
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“Reckonings: A Local History Platform for the Community-Archivist” The Mellon Foundation has awarded a $500,000 planning grant to Northeastern University for Reckonings, an innovative program of collaboration to empower BIPOC communities and citizens in the preservation, creation, and curation of community histories. This effort sees reckoning with the historical record and making it more accurate
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