Trump wants to erase black history. These digital preserveds are racing to save him

Meridith Clark, a professor of race and political communication at the UC-Chapel Hill, told the museums that museums are similar to “public boxes”, and the Trump administration’s attack on it is an attempt to dictate who does and does not belong.

Clark, who wrote, says: “One of the things that power has to do for expansion and oppression is to persuade people that there is no hope for resistance. A tool to do so is to destroy heritage.” We tried to tell you: Black Twitter and the climb of digital meters. “You can see these patterns everywhere, from the Holocaust and burn books to, in recent years, destruction Historical tanks and antiques in Syria. “

Although they could be a politicization of racism and intolerance, social media platforms, from x to Tiktok, are now actual resistance outlets because digital media has become the main way to communicate. Since the facts become easier to manipulate thanks to artificial intelligence and lack of moderation, the information – and our access to it – is more vibrant. One of the ways that activists and teachers have resisted online by creating a curriculum designed to recommend resources on police abuse issues, white sovereignty, and race for teachers.

“We have seen it with Ferguson and Charlottsville,” Clark says about Twitter campaigns. 2014After killing an unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by the police, and 2017In the aftermath of the Federation, the correct gathering, where violent protests erupted and a white woman was killed by his car.

Foster says the country has undergone an “educational transformation” during this time.

“Blacks used to say that ignorance was no longer a defense. People were publishing reading lists, and opened their method. Suddenly, you can educate yourself on these issues, and you wanted to document it,” says Foster. “When it comes to maintaining an official record, they usually do not care about what we think,” she says about the large institutions that support it federally, and this is why social media has become crucial.

The national libraries and the Internet archive, for a while, were the main institutions devoted to web classification. But “only a small group of people participated in this community,” says Gouls, “The black people who are studying to be engraved did not call for these networks.”

A non -profit organization launched in 1996, Internet archive It works as a library of some type: includes 835 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts, 15 million audio recording, in addition to other artifacts. Many people today think about it as the collective memory of the web. In April, the Internet archive, which was already Facing legal problems In separate situations from the Global Music Group and Hachtt Books Publishing, the Ministry of Governmental Efficiency in Elon Musk targeted when the agency reduced funding for the national humanities parking, which supports the archive.

Despite the cleansing of the administration, Rudi Fraser, Blacksky, says it is “a fan of memorization efforts” that he has seen so far, including the innovation laboratory at the Harvard Library – says Save federal data collections– And companies like Joy MediaThat benefits from artificial intelligence and VR/en To wipe and explain the African artifacts, which makes them accessible to people on the continent who cannot see them.