Congratulations Keywords for Black Louisiana (K4BL) on your ASA Digital Project Award!!!

Celebrations for all!!!

Congratulations to Keywords for Black Louisiana, winners of the 2025 American Studies Association Digital Humanities Caucus Digital Projects Award for Legacy Projects!!! Congratulations to Founding Director and Editor-in-Chief Jessica Marie Johnson and the K4BL Collective, past, present and future!!

Congratulations to the winner of the Digital Newcomer Award, Melanie Walsh! Thank you ASA!

Keywords for Black Louisiana is a collective of teachers, students, researchers, culture bearers, scholars, artists, and more building digital portals into histories of Africans and people of African descent along the Gulf Coast. Thank you to the National Historic Publications and Records Commission, Johns Hopkins University, JHU Sheridan Libraries, the Louisiana State Museum, the New Orleans Jazz Museum, the Amistad Research Center, the Midlo Center at UNO, the Historic New Orleans Collection, and all of our sponsors and collaborators, past and present, for your support for the work!!!!

Visit keywordsforblacklouisiana.com to learn more and find the links to our Document (docs.k4bl.org) and Story Sets (stories.k4bl.org)! K4BL is part of the LifexCode ecosystem (lifexcode.org).