Wikipedia:Meetup/AfroCROWD HBCU

Welcome to AfroCROWD HBCU Wikimedia Editathon with Smooth Inc and special guests from Spelman College Department of English and the HBCU Community
Event Description:





Latest event:
Coming up on April 2: We are at SpelmanLitWeek! Join us for a full day of editing and learning and sharing with the historic Spelman College Department of English. Date: Saturday, April 2, 2022 Time: 1:00 am – 7:00 pm/EDT Where: online via Zoom Who should attend: Everyone with an interest in recovering or documenting Black women's herstory and expanding the diversity of knowledge on Wikipedia. No experience is necessary, but you should be capable of turning a computer on and off, as well as accessing the world wide web. We are happy to teach you the basics of editing Wikipedia and point you towards relevant reference materials. The public is welcome to this virtual event. More here and to register go to: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Meetup/SpelmanLitWeek

Past events:
Join us February 26, 2022 11 AM - 2 PM EST on Zoom to learn to edit Wikipedia on topics related to HBCUs, Africa and the African Diaspora. Exchange between Wikipedians and Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) Students. Hosted by Howard University, AfroCROWD, & SMOOTH Inc. and Spelman College Department of English Wikipedians. Get back to this page at bit. ly/ AfroWikiHBCULis

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Dashboard sign up
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HBCU
What is an HBCU? Learn more here

Wiki Indaba
AfroCROWD HBCU first presented at Wiki Indaba. What is Wiki Indaba? Learn more here

Some ideas:

 * Start your account
 * Link an item
 * Add an image
 * Add a sentence with a citation
 * Add names to our editing list
 * Create a relevant list (e.g. places relevant to HBCUs)
 * Join our dashboard
 * Watch an AfroCROWD training video for guided editing advice coaching. Try Wikipedia "guidelines" to start
 * Improve an article with up to date information: Google news look up the name of the article you are editing and find new information you can add in your own voice (don't copy and paste, as bots locate and flag plagiarism where found).


 *  For everything you add, don't forget to add a citation by copying your url and clicking the "Cite" button above and pasting it into the citation wizard. 

''Please don't forget to as a wiki coach for help! That is what we are here for.''

Enjoy

Smooth Inc AfroCROWD HBCU Wikipedia List
HBCU Pioneers


 * Merze Tate
 * Susie H. Carr; also created Wikidata record for spouse, Julius C. Love & added to son, Edgar Amos Love, & his Wikidata item.
 * George W. F. McMechen
 * Fanny Jackson Coppin
 * James S Johnston
 * Richard Humphreys
 * Alain Locke
 * Ralph Bunche
 * Elijah Cummings
 * Stokely Carmichael/Kwame Ture
 * Nnamdi Azikiwe
 * Amiri Baraka
 * Paul Laurence Dunbar
 * Diezani Alison-Madueke
 * Vashti Murphy McKenzie
 * Pete Rawlings
 * Louise Archer
 * Ida R. Cummings
 * Harold T. Pinkett
 * Margaret Murphy

Spelman List

 * Johnnetta Betsch Cole
 * Audrey F. Manley
 * Harriet E. Giles
 * Sophia B. Packard
 * Marian Wright Edelman
 * Alberta Williams King
 * Bernice King
 * Beverly Guy-Sheftall

(African) Women Writers

 * Ama Ata Aidoo
 * Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
 * Mariama Ba
 * Tsitsi Dangarembga
 * NoViolet Bulawayo
 * Taiye Selasi
 * Buchi Emecheta
 * Aminatta Forna
 * Nadine Gordimer
 * Ellen Banda-Aaku
 * Nawal El Saadawi
 * Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
 * Lilia Momplé
 * Flora Nwapa
 * Chioma Okereke
 * Nnedi Okorafor
 * Chika Unigwe
 * Noo Saro-Wiwa
 * Yvonne Vera
 * Warsan Shire
 * Zora Neale Hurston

Female Presidents of HBCUs

 * Mary McLeod Bethune
 * Phyllis Worthy Dawkins
 * Colette Pierce Burnette
 * Roslyn Clark Artis: needs image, none found on Wiki
 * Paulette Dillard
 * Beverly Wade Hogan
 * Cynthia Warrick
 * Dorothy Cowser Yancy
 * Andrea Lewis Miller
 * Lily McNair
 * Evelyn Maria Thompson

Tools and templates

 * AfroCROWD Wikimedia Tutorials: Learn to edit with us!
 * Wikipedia Template:Infobox person
 * Biographies of living persons
 * Writing an article

Languages other than English
You can also contribute to Wikipedia language editions in over 300 languages, including Spanish, French, Haitian Creole, Yoruba, Garifuna and more! Find your language to the left.

Other related editing ideas: List of articles to create/edit

 * AfroCrowd task list
 * Requested articles
 * WikiProject African diaspora
 * Wikipedia:WikiProject:Wiki Loves Women/African feminists
 * Wikipedia:Womeninred by country

Learning tools

 * Wikidata Game
 * Citation Hunt

May be useful

 * General History of Africa

AfroCROWD
Afro Free Culture Crowdsourcing Wikimedia (AfroCROWD) is an initiative and Wikimedia User Group, founded in 2015, which seeks to champion people of African descent on and in Wikimedia in both content amplification and editorship training. AfroCROWD also endeavors to increase awareness and pertinence of Wikimedia and free knowledge, culture and software movements among people of African descent. AfroCROWD has sensitized thousands in its target audience about free culture crowdsourcing and the need to close the multicultural and gender gaps in Wikipedia. AfroCROWD has also held monthly multilingual editathons in partnership with cultural institutions, galleries, libraries, archives, museums (GLAM), colleges, universities and many others including institutions at the United Nations and grassroots organizations. AfroCROWD was founded by Haitian Blogger and Wikipedian, Alice Backer, during Black Wiki History Month in February, 2015 and is run by Executive Director, Sherry Antoine, MPA. We welcome you to get connected today. All are welcome and you don’t need to have any experience.

Organizing Partners / Supporters
Howard University Center for African Studies: The Center for African Studies (CfAS) at Howard University is a comprehensive Title VI National Resource Center and a campus-wide hub that supports and enhances Africa-related teaching and research across Howard University’s schools, academic departments and centers. In accordance with the mission and vision of Howard University, the Center works to consolidate and expand the legacy of HU as a leader for America and the global community in relation to the study of Africa. The Center promotes and supports teaching of African languages (Amharic, Arabic, Somali, Swahili, Wolof, Yoruba and Zulu) in the Department of World Languages and Cultures, as well as research, instruction and training in other academic and professional fields to provide a fuller understanding of Africa

Strong Men Overcoming Obstacles Through Hard-work (SMOOTH) Inc.: SMOOOTH Inc.is a membership based, social development nonprofit that provides social and professional development, mentoring, and life skills training, as well as community service and entrepreneurial skill development opportunities for Black men and male youth.

Since 2009, SMOOTH has been dedicated to serving, educating, developing, uniting, organizing, and empowering young men. Founded at Morgan State University in Baltimore, MD the organization expanded in 2016 and now includes sections at Temple University in Philadelphia, PA and Coppin State University in West Baltimore.

SMOOTH is focused on improving it's capacity to serve Black men and youth in Baltimore, Philadelphia and internationally. In addition to community service initiatives designed by college aged males, SMOOTH's programs include serviced-based leadership development, mentoring, leadership training, post-high school and post-collegiate readiness, youth development and empowerment, and economic literacy programs for males and youth from all walks of life.

Wikipedians at Spelman College Department of English: Spelman College is a private, historically Black, women's liberal arts college in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. The college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium in Atlanta. Founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary, Spelman received its collegiate charter in 1924, making it America's oldest private historically black liberal arts college for women.

Articles Created

 * Colette Pierce Burnette

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