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The Center for Black Digital Research, also known as #DigBlk, engages public and scholarly audiences through collaborative initiatives that bring the buried and scattered histories of early Black organizing for democracy to digital and cultural life. #DigBlk is committed to preserving scattered and under-known Black history and to making them freely and fully available and searchable for students, scholars, and history lovers. #DigBlk is home to the award-winning Colored Conventions Project, the global transcribe-a-thon Douglass Day, the early Black Women’s Organizing Archive, and the Liberatory Tech Project. The Center has been recognized not only for their projects’ interventions in digital arenas, but also for creating structures that foreground shared leadership and just compensation, citation, and acknowledgment practices.