4: Black Beyond Data - on digital and Black medical humanities

For the Medical Record

Join us in our conversation with Jessica Marie Johnson, Lauren Rubin, and Alexandre (Sasha) White about their leadership of the Mellon-funded Black Beyond Data project. Johnson is a historian and digital humanist at Hopkins, Rubin is the Director of Development at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Baltimore, and White is in the departments of the history of medicine and sociology at Hopkins. Alongside their colleague Kim Gallon, these individuals lead the project in its re-evaluation of data through the digital humanities. In this episode, we talk about how data can be used by and for communities, the Black digital humanities, and how Black humanity can help to see data in a different, radical way.
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St. Francis Neighborhood Center
Sayeed Choudhury
Covid Black
Patricia Hswe
Jeremy Greene (listen to our episode with Jeremy Greene here)
New Generation Scholars
The African Diaspora Alliance
Ink Sweat and Tears
Runaways London
Marisa Parham
The REPAIR Project
Heidi Nicholls
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Life x Code: Digital Humanities Against Enclosure
Center for Black Digital Research #DigBlk, Pennsylvania State University
African American History, Culture and Digital Humanities (AADHum), University of Maryland, College Park
Gabrielle Foreman
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Black Press Research Collective
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs
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adrienne maree brown
Abdul Alkalimat
Alondra Nelson
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Britt Rusert
Autumn Womack
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Stuart Hall
Marisa Fuentes
Christina Sharpe
Saidiya Hartman
Édouard Glissant
William Kentridge
Black Beyond Data Reading Group
Catherine Knight Steele
Brandeis Marshall
Dorothy Berry
No Boundaries Coalition
Tony Warner, Black History Walks