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2023
AFRO News and Afro Charities teams attend a Broadway musical
FEATURED PARTNERS
OUR ESTEEMED DONORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INSTITUTIONAL FUNDERS
Archival Advisory Board
Alison Reppert Gerber
Head of Preservation Programs, Smithsonian Libraries and Archives
Brandon Nightingale
Senior Project Manager, Black Press Archives Digitization Project, Moorland-Spingarn Research Center, Howard University
Dr. Kim Gallon
Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and Director of the Black Press Research Collective
Maria A. Day
Senior Director of Special Collections, Conservation, & Library Services and Co-Director, Indigenous Peoples' Program at the Maryland State Archives
Steven D. Booth
Managing Archivist, Johnson Publishing Company Archive, Getty Research Institute
Tempestt Hazel
Founder, Sixty Inches from Center
Zakiya Collier
Archivist & Memory Worker with the Shift Collective
Working with the team at Afro Charities was such an inspiring and deeply rewarding experience. The dedication of everyone we connected with to the mission of preserving and sharing the stories of everyday people was inspiring and more important than people give it credit for. On a personal level, I didn't know much about archives before this project, but hearing some of the anecdotal stories that emerged from the archives felt like being given a window into the lives of people who didn't have the platform of social media to share their experiences. Especially as as Nigerian immigrant to this country, I wasn't sure how much material they would have for Black stories around the world... but they truly have so much information. And all of it gets care. Afro Charities’ commitment to honoring this history has not only given me a different perspective, but it has also underscored the importance of their work. I'm honored, encouraged, and immensely grateful for the opportunity we had to contribute to the work their team shows up to do every single day.
Joy Ekuta
Co-founder, Chief Strategy & Operations Officer at Retrospect
Archive alumni
Many hands have contributed to preserving this history. To honor their labor and contributions, we have listed their names below. If we missed you, please reach out, so we can document your work on this multi-generational project.