Dr. Quintard Taylor writes:
Hi Folks:
On February 1, 2007 BlackPast.org
was launched here in Seattle by a handful of volunteers. Our goal was
to harness the technology of the Internet to bring African American
history free and without restrictions to a global audience. We started
with a dozen volunteer content contributors, half a dozen volunteer
staff, and initially about 100 pages of information. Today BlackPast.org
has 13,000 pages including over 4,000 original entries written by more
than 700 volunteer contributors from six continents. Over the past ten
years just under 20 million people from 200 nations have used its
resources. BlackPast.org
remains the largest website on African American and global African
history on the Internet today. None of this would have been possible
without your contributions of entries and articles. Thank you.
Thanks
to a new partnership between BlackPast.org and Amazon.com, that
audience will grow. To honor Black History Month a group of Amazon
employees have put African American history facts on Echo, Dot, and Tap,
Amazon’s smart devices. One can say “Alexa, give black history facts,”
and these devices will provide one sentence descriptions for about 100
people. All the information comes credited from the files of
BlackPast.org. We believe they will continue to provide this
information after February 28 and we hope they will expand the number
and range of entries from the website.
Finally, BlackPast.org is having a 10th
Anniversary Celebration here in Seattle on March 11. You will see the
generic invitation below. For those of you in Washington and Oregon,
please attend. For those outside our area, wish us well and if you can
afford it, please send a donation. Again, none of this would have been
possible without you. Your work has made BlackPast.org an amazing
success.
Quintard
Come dine and celebrate in support of the largest Black History web site on the internet.
Saturday, March 11, 2017, 6:00 p.m. at Washington Hall, Seattle, WA.
A limited amount of tickets are available right now at Brown Paper Tickets.
Blackpast.org
4616 25th Ave
Box 222
Seattle, WA 98105
770-464-6066
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