Black Beyond Data is building an ecosystem of scholars, policy-makers, medical professionals, technologists, and community organizers invested in centering Black lives in data study
Black Beyond Data brings Digital Black Studies, computational humanities, and community engagement together. The shared goal? Humanizing, repurposing, and activating data and conversations around data for the Black freedom struggle and Black study more broadly. Black Beyond Data work occurs alongside and across three interlocking pillars, ones particularly relevant in this current moment, but timeless in their impact: health data, slavery and data, and Black community data.
A Mellon-funded initiative with support from the Johns Hopkins University, the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and Brown University.
Projects & Initiatives
Health & Data
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The Black Frontline invites you into a world of colliding realities of pain and power, structural racism, longstanding inequity, a history of healing and harm, and their manifestations in community, society and nation. Learn more: https://theblackfrontline.org/about/
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The Black Health Heritage Data (BHHD) lab in the Department of Africana Studies at Brown University accelerates and facilitates black digital humanities critical data studies and data science to advance health equity for Black communities within health information technology (health IT).]We do this by focusing on Black health informatics, HIT that draws on Black Studies epistemologies and engages the historical and contemporary experience of Black communities’ relationship to with health and medicine. https://sites.brown.edu/bhhd-lab/
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Learn more: https://sites.brown.edu/bhhd-lab/blackhealthinformatics/
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A Risk & Racism Project under Black Beyond Data and LxC. Directed by Dr. Alexandre White
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A Risk & Racism Project directed by Dr. Alexandre White. Apply: Dismantling Structural Injustice in Healthcare NEH Institute
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An online exhibit and resource for understanding the intersection of medicine, empire, racism, and resistance. Led by Dr. Heidi Nichols. A Risk & Racism Project under Black Beyond Data and LxC. Directed by Dr. Alexandre White
Slavery & Data
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Slavery and data from the grassroots to the world
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A Risk & Racism Project under Black Beyond Data and LxC. Directed by Dr. Alexandre White
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March 29, 2024: bit.ly/WOBD2024
Community & Data
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The Black Press Research Collective (BPRC) is dedicated to generating print and digital scholarship on the Black Press. We are primarily interested in the Black periodical press, although we engage work that embraces a more capacious definition of the Black Press that includes radio and broadcast journalism. The BPRC is dedicated to training new generations of Black Press scholars, developing Black Press studies as a discipline, and connecting African Diasporic communities to historical and contemporary Black periodicals.
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BBD @ St. Francis building data capacity in the Reservoir Hill community of West Baltimore
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Directed by Dr. Nadejda Webb. Part of the Black Vernaculars Bridge initiative (DSLxBBD)
The Black Beyond Data Exec Team
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Jessica Marie Johnson, PI, Johns Hopkins
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Kim Gallon, Co-PI, Brown University
DESIGN DIRECTOR
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Alexandre White, Co-PI, Johns Hopkins
SUSTAINABILITY DIRECTOR
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Nadejda Webb, Co-PI, Johns Hopkins University
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Pyar Seth, Exec Team, University of Notre Dame
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Zophia Edwards, Exec Team, Johns Hopkins University
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Denise Ignatowski, Project Manager, Sheridan Libraries
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Our Community Partners Make The Work Possible
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Amistad Research Center
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Centro de Investigación y Archivo Digital PRAFRO UPR
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New Generation Scholars (Baltimore)
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African Diaspora Alliance (Baltimore)
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Ink, Sweat and Tears (London)
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Spread the Word UK)
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St. Francis Neighborhood Center (Baltimore)
INSTITUTIONAL SPONSORS
The Black Beyond Data Ecosystem is thankful for the support of our co-conspirators and collaborators
