An enormous effort is underway at Howard College to digitize 1000’s of Black newspapers in an effort to make the fabric extra accessible and supply main sources at a time when some try to whitewash historical past.
The traditionally Black college lately obtained a $2 million grant that may permit it to scan microfilms and newspapers over the course of 5 years and make a lot of the gathering accessible to the general public.
“If we expect the generally held perception that journalism or newspapers write the primary draft of historical past, if you do not have the Black press,