The Black Press @ 200

@dallasweekly.bsky.social

Continuously published, having never missed a single issue for over 70 years, DW has emerged as the leading, most trusted voice of the African diaspora in north Texas. www.dallasweekly.com

@aoc.bsky.social

Waitress turned Congresswoman for the Bronx and Queens. Grassroots elected, small-dollar supported. A better world is possible. ocasiocortez.com

@thathistoryguy.bsky.social

I read history and I know things. 5th Year ABD at George Washington University studying American History, race, and historical memory

@jewonwoo.bsky.social

Black print culture, Black newspapers, DH, pedagogy for underrepresented students, esp. at community college, community-based teaching, cat, UU, and kimchi. 한국사람. jewonwoo.com

@tzodiac1.bsky.social

🇨🇦 Teresa Zackodnik, she/her, 19thC AfAm print culture prof. Author of Press, Platform, Pulpit: Black Feminist Publics in the Era of Reform. New book July 2025. Mama, cat lady, knitter, worrier, Aquarian.

@durgesh-leela.bsky.social

Ph. D. Candidate at Johns Hopkins Sociology studying medicine, race, caste, and empire.

@kenmiddleton.bsky.social

Digital Initiatives Librarian, Middle Tennessee State University African American history, women's history, historical newspapers, historical GIS, public history

@nadejdaishawebb.bsky.social

“My work is an extension of my altars."-Brenda Torres-Figueroa✊🏽🇯🇲🇬🇾 | Black. Lit + DH scholar | We Live Language Lab | AD @ LifexCode + VAP @ Hopkins

@williamsfayne.bsky.social

Assistant Professor at UW-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication researching the Black press, digital journalism and race.

@kgallon.bsky.social

Africana Studies Prof @BrownUniversity interested in AI & Health Tech, Black Journalism, Libraries, & The Black Church

@ejwestuk.bsky.social

Fixed gear enthusiast. Dog walker extraordinaire. Historian of the Black Press and other things.

@ccp-org.bsky.social

Colored Conventions Project is a collective that brings 19th-century Black organizing to digital life through archives, digital exhibits, and more. ColoredConventions.org

@lehelton.bsky.social

Historian. Archivist. Teacher of public humanities. Author of Scattered and Fugitive Things: How Black Collectors Created Archives and Remade History (Columbia University Press, 2024). https://cup.columbia.edu/book/scattered-and-fugi

@jessicaleighhester.bsky.social

fledgling historian (grave robbing in the 19th century U.S.) ~ science journalist (writing a book about traces, trash, fossils, and the future for Random House!) ~ friend to slime molds, foe of fatbergs ~ she/her 📍Woods Hole / Baltimore / Brooklyn

@wordinblacknews.bsky.social

'Black America's Digital Daily' — innovating on the near 200 year legacy of the Black Press.

@apgelbard.bsky.social

Ph.D. In Global & Sociocultural Studies-Sociology, African Diaspora Studies, & Cuba • Curator of www.cabildoderegla.org • Co-Curator of Sweet Wata: Choreographing Ancestral Memory • Photographer• Mom to Pete the Cat & Dalya 🐍

@jimccasey1.bsky.social

Making our way at the Center for Black Digital Research (digblk.psu.edu) with the Colored Conventions Project (coloredconventions.org) Douglass Day (douglassday.org). Co-editor, The Colored Conventions Movement (2021). Also writing a history of editors.

@bsky.app

official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: support@bsky.app