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Black Lunch Table
Black Lunch Table (BLT) is a community centered initiative addressing and correcting historical omissions in the documented histories of contemporary African-American artists on Wikipedia. Established in 2005 by artists Heather Hart and Jina Valentine, BLT events engage cultural producers of color in guided dialogue around issues directly impacting their communities and offers participants the platform to record, archive, and transcribe the written record on Wikipedia.

History
Black Lunch Table was founded by Heather Hart and Jina Valentine in 2005 at an artist residency at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Having experienced self-segregation at a number of institutions, Hart and Valentine were curious to explore the concept of the black lunch table; segregating a lunchroom "in a purportedly idyllic space" at Skowhegan and unpacking the impact. The project has since met several iterations; focused on mending and melding Black community through candid conversations around the function of race and voluntary segregation in community. These roundtable discussions are then archived and transcribed for researchers.