Know something about archives? Content management systems? Black Chicago? Come intern for the BMRC!
Learn more about our PAID internship on our website: ow.ly/KZPR50RF10j
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Have you ever noticed the BMRC Resource page? It includes a page with current job openings, internships and special programs offered by our member institutions. Check it out!

The Black Metropolis Research Consortium is pleased to offer two (2) scholarships for attendance to the 2024 Society of American Archivists conference for MLIS students or recent graduates who are Black/African American/African Diaspora.
MORE INFO: ow.ly/Uxq250R9xqU

Northern Illinois University, a BMRC member institution invites you to attend their 2024 Regional History Conference April 20, 2024 9:00 am - 4:30 PM Barsema Alumni and Visitors Center.

LEARN MORE and RSVP by April 15, 2024 - ow.ly/UjUX50R1Nty

The BMRC is pleased to offer two (2) scholarships for in-person attendance at the 2024 Annual Meeting of Soc Amer Archivists in Chicago. MLIS students or recent graduates (2021 and later) are encouraged to apply. Deadline is April 12th.

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Come hear the new Executive Director of the BMRC, Dr. Sumayya Ahmed give an (online) Alumni Lecture at UNC-Chapel Hill about what and whom archivists choose to save!

For more info: sils.unc.edu/event/alumni-l…

To register: unc.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Heads UP! You will not want to miss the BMRC COMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM on March 13 at 11:30 am CT. We would LOVE to have you join us on site, but if you plan to attend virtually, please register using the QR code provided. See flyer for details about our speakers.

You will not want to miss the BMRC COMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM on March 13 at 11:30 am CT. Join us onsite or virtually! See flyer for more details.

If planning to attend virtually, please register using the QR code provided

You will not want to miss the BMRC COMMUNITY SYMPOSIUM on March 13 at 11:30 am CT. Join us onsite or virtually. See flyer for more details. If planning to attend virtually, please register using the QR code provided.

LAST CALL!
Scholars, Writers, Public Historians and Artists:
The APPLICATION DEADLINE for the BMRC Summer Short-term Fellowship Program is JANUARY 8, 2024.
LEARN MORE & APPLY: tinyurl.com/BMRCFellowship…

ATTENTION Scholars, Writers, and Artists:
The BMRC has EXTENDED the APPLICATION DEADLINE for our Summer Short-term Fellowship Program.
LEARN MORE & APPLY: tinyurl.com/BMRCFellowship…

Join us on Friday, December 8 at 12 PM CT for another BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series. Librarian and independent Writer Jene Watson will present 'Juba, Calinda, Bamboula: The Life of Maud Cuney Hare (A Story for Young Readers).'
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Join us on Wednesday, November 15, at 3 PM CT for the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! The topic is 'The DuSable Museum and the Re-appropriation of History. How Black Left Activists Thwarted McCarthyism in the Cultural Sphere'
LEARN MORE: ow.ly/cyIT50Q7fim

The BMRC is currently accepting applications for our 2024 Summer Short-term Fellowship Program.

LEARN MORE: tinyurl.com/BMRCFellowship…

Sumayya Ahmed will be joining the Black Metropolis Research Consortium (BMRC) and the University of Chicago Library as Executive Director of the BMRC on January 16.

READ the FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: ow.ly/xacz50Q5cIh

Join us on Tuesday, November 7 at 11 a.m. CST for the next session of the BMRC Fellows' Fall Speaker Series! Agnieszka Tuszynska, Ph.D., Associate Professor of English at Queensborough Community College, CUNY will present “A Damn Hard Fight”: The Life and Work of Willard Motley'

What do you know about Migration Clubs?
More Info and Link to Join us: ow.ly/qCOV50Q2aFh

Join us on Wednesday, Oct 25 -'Right to the City: Black Organizing, the 1980s Education Summits, and a Model for participatory democracy' bmrc.lib.uchicago.edu/news/fellows-f…

JOIN US for the next session of the Fellows' Fall Speaker Series. October 18 at 12 PM CST. Use the QR code for more details and a link.

Next up in the BMRC Fellows Fall Speaker Series...