• Rebecca Y. Bayeck

• race
• area studies
• dh

• Black digital humanities
• learning sciences
• instructional design
• exhibition design

Black DH has at its core principles and practices that call for equity and inclusion. This article speaks to how the dialogue between Black DH and the fields of learning sciences, instructional design, and exhibition design can create new frameworks for inclusion, design, and learning for all.

• Dhanashree Thorat

• globalDH
• infrastructure
• literary studies
• race

• Black digital humanities
• postcolonial digital humanities
• digital divide

In June 2019, Google announced a new undersea fiber-optic cable line connecting Portugal and South Africa and named it Equiano after Olaudah Equiano, an eighteenth-century Black man who was kidnapped from his Igbo village and sold into slavery. This article reads Google's infrastructural initiative against the grain of Equiano's autobiographical narrative to locate how the violent afterlives of slavery and colonialism manifest in and undergird Internet infrastructure projects today.

• Jina DuVernay

• archives
• race

• librarians
• libraries
• archivists
• Black digital humanities

Reflecting on my own work as a library professional, I argue that bridging the gap between the Black digital humanities and the social sciences, particularly library science, can prove to be incredibly fruitful in all phases of a digital humanity project.

• Franny Gaede
• Ana-Maurine Lara
• Alaí Reyes-Santos
• Kate Thornhill

• race
• indigenous
• collaboration
• glam
• data curation
• project report
• area studies

• Black digital humanities
• Caribbean
• Digital archive

This interdisciplinary team placed the healers’ community at the center of the research project to publicly validate and share aspects of their knowledge with the healers, teachers, researchers, and students studying race, indigeneity, ethnobotanical medicinal healing, and intersectionality.

• Alanna Prince
• Cara Marta Messina

• dh
• race
• cultural criticism
• ethics
• publishing

• Black digital humanities
• Antiracist editorial practices
• Black studies

The focus of Black DH and this special issue is not to define Black DH, but rather spotlight the limitless, interdisciplinary nature of Black DH and Black scholarship.

• Angel David Nieves

• dh
• race
• cultural criticism
• ethics

• Black digital humanities
• Reflection

I propose that we in the Black DH community consider these ten principles of practice.

• Jazma Sutton
• Kalani Craig

• archives
• data curation
• race
• cultural heritage
• history
• oral history
• social media
• project report

• Black women
• Black digital humanities
• History harvest
• Memory work
• Digital community archive

In a world that has always conceived of Black women in opposition to others, but never on her own terms, Remembering Freedom History Harvest builds a local Indiana historiography that relies less on resistant readings of archives and more on the community archives and memory work that join together in descendant archival practice as a way to generate Black women’s histories.