Three years. Three cities. One question that keeps getting more urgent: who owns Black data — and who gets to decide? WOBD III lands in New Orleans this May 20–22, hosted by the Amistad Research Center on its 60th anniversary. The public evening is May 21, it’s free, and everyone is welcome. Swipe to learn more!
It’s giving New Orleans in May with the people who are changing the conversation around Black data.
🎶 Free tickets are now live — register at the link in bio before they’re gone.
Before we talk about who owns Black data, we want you to meet the institution that's been protecting Black history for 60 years. The Amistad Research Center in New Orleans is our home for WOBD III — and they are the real deal. Swipe to learn more. Tickets go live this Friday!
Gia Hamilton is an applied anthropologist, founder, curator and director — she brings what she calls Social Magic to every room she enters 🪄.
Join us in New Orleans May 21, 2026.
Free tickets at the link in bio!
“Who Is the Black Woman? She is a college graduate. A drop-out. A student. A wife. A divorcée. A mother. A lover. A child of the ghetto. A product of the bourgeoisie. A professional writer. A person who never dreamed of publication. A solitary individual. A member of the Movement. A gentle humanist. A violent revolutionary. She is angry and tender, loving and hating. She is all these things—and more.” — Toni Cade Bambara, The Black Woman (1970)
WHAT’S THE PLAN WEEKEND RECAP // SISTERHOOD IS A VERB >> April 10, 2026
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A meaningful return for Muse 360 to hold this gathering at our founder Sharayna Ashanti Christmas’ alma mater, Morgan State University @morganstateu Returning matters, especially when it creates space for the next generation to gather across Baltimore in study, political reflection, and community.
Thank you to Jessica Marie Johnson, @innerpeace33 , and @raynqueen for guiding the room, and to every student who showed up ready to think collectively and build across generations.
Founder of The Descendants Project, Jo Banner is fighting to make sure the land, the burial grounds, and the stories of Black descendants are never erased.
Join us in New Orleans May 21, 2026.
Free tickets at the link in bio!
“Revolution begins with the self, in the self. The individual, the basic revolutionary unit, must be purged of poison and lies that assault the ego and threaten the heart.” — Toni Cade Bambara , On The Issue of Roles, 1970 // The Black Woman: An Anthology
WHAT’S THE PLAN WEEKEND RECAP // SISTERHOOD IS A VERB: INTERGENERATIONAL DIALOGUE
As we continue reflecting on the opening of the Toni Cade Bambara weekend, we’re thinking about what it means to use the political, cultural, and relational tools she left behind to study, organize, and remain accountable to one another.
On Friday, 4/10 at Morgan State University, the next generation of cultural workers gathered from across Baltimore gathered for Sisterhood is a Verb: Intergenerational Dialogue presented in partnership with [Life x Code] @life_x_code and [ADA Global Studies @africandiasporaalliance Participants engaged excerpts from “On the Issue of Roles” by Bambara, reflected on the question “How did you come by your name?”, and explored roles for liberation rather than leadership along with dialogue and empathetic listening interview exercises.
Young people spoke openly about campus life, organizing, institutional pressure, and what it means to locate yourself within movement work while remaining connected to community and self-definition.
Thank you to Dr. Jessica Marie Johnson, @innerpeace33 , and @raynqueen for guiding the room, and to every student who showed up ready to think collectively and build across generations.
Over the Fall ’25 and Spring ’26 semesters, the JHU Digital Humanities workshop series welcomed 354 attendees from 46 unique institutions! We extend many thanks to our featured speakers and attendees!!! 💐👏🏽
As a reminder, the Digital Humanities Workshop Series evolves from the DH Seminar Series, a nine-year effort in which graduate students from the Johns Hopkins History department—with support from Professors Jessica Marie Johnson and Tom Lippincott— organized and facilitated discussions on the theory, practice, and application of DH. With support from the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute, the series now incorporates the wide array of DH work happening at JHU affiliated with the Center for Digital Humanities, LifexCode: DH Against Enclosure, and the Sheridan Libraries.
Current co-coordinators Drs. Emily McGinn and I look forward to an awesome 2026-2027 workshop❗️✨
If you are interested in presenting your work, or would like to recommend a colleague’s awesome work, please reach out! You can also submit your recommendation or express your interest using the QR code or link in our bio!!
Our WOBD keynote speakers are ready to share their vision of the future!
Andrea Armstrong has spent her career making visible what the legal system works hard to hide — who is locked up, under what conditions, and why.
A law professor at Loyola University in New Orleans and MacArthur “Genius” Grantee, she publishes in the country's leading law journals on civil rights, incarceration, and public health.
She clerked in the Eastern District of Louisiana, she knows this city, and she knows exactly what's at stake when Black data falls into the wrong hands.
Register now!!! Link in bio.
The conversation continues. Two more specialists joining us in New Orleans for WOBD III.
Desmond Graves. Dr. Schuyler Esprit.
A digital strategist who builds the infrastructure that helps Black and cultural institutions lead the technology economy. A scholar who founded the first digital humanities center in the Caribbean — preserving heritage on its own terms.
From New Orleans to Dominica, the fight for Black data has no borders. Who Owns Black Data III
May 20–22, New Orleans.
Register now at the link in our bio. 🔗
Meet the specialists coming to WOBD III. 📌
Dr. Chris Dancy. Sandra Aya Enimil. Michael Pegues.
A computer scientist who centers Black humanity in AI design. A Yale librarian who sits at the center of who owns knowledge and who doesn’t. An IP attorney who has spent thirty years asking who gets to own an idea and who gets left out.
Three people. One urgent question.
New Orleans, May 20–22.
This is what it looks like when the right people are in the room.
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