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Prof. LaShawnDa L. Pittman Awarded a 2024 ACLS Digitial Justice Seed Grant

Professor Pittman has been awarded for the project, “The Black Grandmother Worldmaking Library,” which is a collaborative, community-based model for gathering, archiving, and digitizing our “libraries” (Black grandmothers’ stories and cultural inheritances, e.g., material possessions, cultural traditions, rituals, language, etc.) across multiple, preservable websites that will be strategically and complementarily linked. This publicly accessible digital resource allows Black grandmothers to contribute to and control the stories we tell about their lives.

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