Leona Lavong was looking for part-time work, preferably on her university’s campus, when she found something more: a window into Black American life across the decades. Lavong had “stumbled” into a job at Howard University’s Black Press Archives, she said, digitizing Black newspapers from across the country, including her hometown. “I know there’s a lot […]

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