Wikidata:Grove Hall Black Women Lead
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Welcome to WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead. Led and designed by Grove Hall Main Streets with support from Northeastern University and the Boston Public Library, this WikiProject aims to shed light on the lives and stories of Black women leaders who have shaped Boston’s history from the colonial era to present day. In support of this aim, Northeastern students will create Wikipedia and/or Wikidata entries for 212 women named in the Black Women Lead banner project via Reckonings and Service-Learning programs. These students will create publicly and easily accessible information about these women’s contributions to Boston’s history.
Scope edit
The WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead focuses on:
- the lives, activities, achievements, and experiences of Black women in Boston from the colonial era up to the present day
- contemporary Black women in Boston as agents of historic change
A major goal of WikiProject Grove Hall Black Women Lead is to create, update, or edit Wikipedia articles documenting the lives and perspectives of pioneering Black women who lived in Boston.
Open Tasks edit
Participants edit
Ed Gaskin, Executive Director at Grove Hall Main Streets, has spearheaded this project to shed light on the stories of Boston’s Black women leaders. He has already compiled names and short biographies of 200+ individuals, and his list keeps growing! He has also worked to create banners depicting these women, now featured along Blue Hill Avenue.
The Boston Research Center is a digital community history and archives lab based at Northeastern University Library in partnership with the Boston Public Library. The mission of the BRC is to help bring Boston’s deep neighborhood and community histories to light through the creation and use of new technologies. Through these technologies, Boston residents can share the underrepresented stories from their community’s past, as well as a deeper understanding of how this past shapes our present. The BRC is creating infrastructure, including a Wikidata data model and Wikipedia project, to expand public awareness of these women’s stories and support community contributions to this project.
The Reckonings Project, based at Northeastern University, is a cross-institutional project that emphasizes the histories and commemorative landscapes of Black Boston, digital scholarship, civic engagement, and community-library-university partnerships. Working closely with the BRC, Reckonings staff will create toolkits and learning modules for NU students and faculty to implement the WikiProjects in the classroom as part of NU’s Service Learning program.
NU Service Learning embeds service into academic coursework through community partnership. Student staff, with support from the BRC and Reckonings, will bring these toolkits and learning modules into the classroom and support student Wikipedians as they research, compose, and cite Wikidata and Wikipedia articles.
On Wikipedia edit
Our Wikipedia WikiProject focuses on aggregating and uploading the 212 biographies and stories of Boston’s Black women leaders. The goal is to create a Wikipedia page for each individual leader. These stories will be able to be accessed via the project and individual Wikipedia pages.
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Announcements edit
Please post recent announcements directly on this page for improved page editing history, watcher alerts and greater visibility
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Article Alerts edit
Resources and Research edit
Black Artist of Boston Project
Directories (People) at the Boston Public Library
Digital Records, City of Boston Archives
Digital Records at the Massachusetts Archives
Wikipedia:Meetup/Simmons University/Women's Suffrage and Civil Rights Activism 2020
Archives for Black Lives Philadelphia: Anti-Racist Description Resources
Good model for centralized Wikipedia project, excellent how-to articles and resources (many resources behind paywall but can find alternates at BPL/NUL)
Wikidata:WikiProject Neighborhood Public Art in Boston
Good model for Wikidata project, illustration of data models, visualizations, resources (historical marker and plaque databases might be useful)
Press edit
Black Media: CityLine: Black Women Lead, WCVB Channel 5 Boston:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXUyG2B-i1s
Gaskin: Project recognizes Black women who shaped Boston - Boston Herald:
https://www.bostonherald.com/2023/10/14/gaskin-project-recognizes-black-women-who-shaped-boston/
Portraits honor Boston's Black women leaders in Roxbury - WBZ TV-4 CBS:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVoJjca-3Q8
Organizers hope to inspire the next generation with banners honoring iconic Black women in Boston – WHDH TV-7:
Black women leaders honored with street pole banners in Grove Hall – Boston News 25:
Boston Honors Prominent Black Women Leaders with Banners on Blue Hill Ave. - Black Enterprise Magazine:
Blue Hill Ave. banners honor Black women leaders, Bay State Banner:
https://www.baystatebanner.com/2023/10/11/blue-hill-ave-banners-honor-black-women-leaders/
Raising up Black women leaders on Blue Hill Ave. Bay State Banner:
https://www.baystatebanner.com/2023/10/18/raising-up-black-women-leaders-on-blue-hill-ave/
Interview with Ed Gaskin and Kamali Thornell, Black Women Lead Banner Project - BNN News:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y0_5RryRQA
On Another Level with Sharon Hinton WBCA:
https://reflect-cablecast-bnn.cablecast.tv/CablecastPublicSite/show/111427?site=1
Black Teachers Matter with Sharon Hinton WBCA 102.9 FM (Starting at 22:00):
Seniors on the Move WBCA:
https://reflect-cablecast-bnn.cablecast.tv/store-3/111452-sotm-v1/vod.mp4
Innovation Showcase with Host Jay Sugarman, Black Women Lead Project:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vH1zQ5hoH2HbkT8fOBtx3SSPm5c261wY/view?ts=6543d1f9
The MAMLEO Broadcast on Boston Praise Radio & TV - WBPG-LP 102.9 FM (Starting at 9:59):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K3kE5-LYY4
Healing Our Land Broadcast on Boston Praise Radio & TV - WBPG-LP 102.9 FM (Starting at 48:35):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_ZnywQI8VI
"People Power with Priscilla" on Boston Praise Radio & TV - WBPG-LP 102.9 FM:
https://www.youtube.com/live/P2WIjsUZrgA?si=E-bCifMdjkaj1LvF
black women lead - External Affairs Porter:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzIjclKb-c4
Organizers hope to inspire the next generation with banners honoring iconic Black women in Boston – WHDH-7:
New public art highlights Boston’s history-making Black women – Axios Boston:
https://www.axios.com/local/boston/2023/08/25/black-women-lead-art-project
Boston's "Black Women Lead Project, 2023" Honors Evelynn Hammonds – Harvard University:
https://histsci.fas.harvard.edu/news/bostons-black-women-lead-project-2023-honors-evelynn-hammonds
Special ‘Black Women Lead Brunch’ at State House honors Black women who have made a difference in Boston. WHDH-7:
In Grove Hall, a banner display to spotlight Boston’s ‘hidden figures’ – The Boston Globe:
200 Black women leaders from Massachusetts honored at State House – CBS Boston:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TUSzee3qqyc
Cityline's Karen Holmes Ward among those honored at Mass. Brunch – WCVB 5:
Black women leaders honored with street pole banners in Grove Hall– WFXT (Yahoofinance, YahooNews, YahooNews Canada, from Boston News 25):
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/black-women-leaders-honored-street-224809051.html
Grove Hall banner array will honor Black women leaders past, present:– Dorchester Reporter:
Frederica M. Williams, president and CEO of Whittier Health Center honored – The Patriot Vanguard:
Whittier Street Health Center CEO Frederica M. Williams Honored During Black Women Lead Event at State House – Newswire.com:
Whittier Street Health Center CEO Frederica M. Williams honored at Black Women Lead event at State House - MassNonprofit News:
References edit
“Wikipedia,” in Wikipedia, September 26, 2023, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia. Accessed 29 September 2023.
“Wikidata,” January 22, 2023, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:Main_Page. Accessed 29 September 2023.
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Related Projects edit
Harvard Radcliffe – Oral History Project Black Women Oral History Project - Harvard Schlesinger Library, Mass Historical Society, Northeastern University Library Archives and special collections