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ASU student-produced podcast focuses on community history, memory, healing

Looking for a new podcast to listen to this summer? The Community-Driven Archives Initiative at the ASU Library recently launched a new podcast series titled "Archives Glow" about community history, m...

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Supporting the next generation of BIPOC community archivists

The ASU Library is embarking on a three-year project to nurture the next generation of community archivists currently attending community and Tribal colleges. With support from the Institute of Museum...

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Photo album sparks discovery of ASU's first female African American graduate

Michele Neptune McHenry and her husband, Joseph McHenry, were slowly making their way through the photo album when they came upon the photos and name card. The card, gray in tone, was about 1-by-2 in...

Tutnese: The lost language of the enslaved- Elise Daniells

Welcome to the Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog! We continue this semester’s CDA blog with a submission from Elise Daniells, one of our amazing student archivists on the CDA team who is...

Happy Holidays from the Community-Driven Archives Initiative - Denise Mosso Ruiz

*Note - The Community-Driven Archives (CDA) Initiative blog will be on hiatus until February 2021* CDA will like to wish everyone Happy Holidays, and that everyone enjoys a safe social distance holid...

Reflection of event "CDA Virtual Kids Camp" - Denise Mosso Ruiz

In the second week of August 2020, I hosted a three-day event, hosting a workshop per day which was called “ CDA Virtual Kids Camp”. Day 1 consisted of story time where the children’s picture book “Ju...

Reflection of event “Family Legacies, Imagined and Remembered” with Desert Diwata - Myra Khan

Last week, I co-facilitated a family photo and memory workshop entitled “Family Legacies, Imagined and Remembered” with the wonderful steering committee of Desert Diwata. The first half of the event c...

Archives of American Slavery - Elise Daniells

For the longest time, the documentation of African slavery in the United States has been reliant on the experiences and resources of White plantation owners and modern U.S. history textbooks written b...

Queer Trace - Kate Saunders

We can look for evidence or proof of queerness in places like the dancefloor, a “space where relations between memory and content, self and other, become inextricably intertwined” -Muñoz, Cruising Uto...