Brandon Nightingale Keynote
Brandon Nightingale is the Senior Project Manager of the Black Press Archives Digitization Project at the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center at Howard University and a PhD student in the Department of History. He holds a BA in History from the University of Central Florida, an MA in Public History from UCF, and an MS in Information Science from Florida State University. At MSRC, he leads a multi-year effort to digitize, preserve, and expand access to one of the largest and most significant collections of Black newspapers in the world. His work focuses on Black print culture, archival preservation, digital access, and the role of technology in shaping historical memory. His dissertation examines the institutional history of the Black Press Archives, its connections to Pan-African thought, and its impact on public understanding of Black life.
