Welcome to the News Page, where you can keep up with the latest happenings at the Africana Heritage Project and elsewhere! Check here often to stay in the know about important goings-on!
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Footnote.com Launches Application on Facebook®
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Footnote.com today announced the launch of I Remember, a Facebook application aimed at helping connect Facebook users in order to share memories of loved ones. Few events in life generate the emotions and memories as does the passing of a friend, family member or colleague. However, without the appropriate tools and forum to preserve and share these memories, a loved one’s legacy may be lost.
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W.E.B. Du Bois Collection Goes Digital
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Through a $200,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Verizon Communications, the University of Massachusetts is digitizing the more than 110,000 items in its Du Bois special collection - 168 linear feet of correspondence, pictures, pamphlets, mementos, novels, essays and secondary resources other people compiled about Du Bois. The Du Bois digitization will begin this summer and is expected to take two years to complete.
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"Voyages: The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade Database" Unveiled: Access is Free to Public
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ATLANTA — Historians hope a new Web database will help bring millions of blacks closer to their African ancestors who were forced onto slave ships, connecting them to their heritage in a way that has long been possible for white Europeans.
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