The third reasons for a year of silence is that I have been teaching a class at for the School of Information and Library Science at the Pratt Institute. The creative juice that had gone into writing for this site was directed at developing Projects in Digital Archives. I started the class last January and a few days later found out that there was a bun in the oven. What a year.
Today’s partial explanation for one year of silence is In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience. When I left my job as Web Coordinator for NYPL’s The Branch Libraries to become Assistant Director for Technology for NYPL’s Digital Library Program it was in part to get this site out the door. This joint Digital Library Program and Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture project is…
A sweeping narrative from the transatlantic slave trade to the Western migration, the colonization movement, the Great Migration, and the contemporary immigration of Caribbeans, Haitians, and sub-Saharan Africans. Told in historical texts, rare visual materials, and contemporary photo-journalism.