Wikipedia:Meetup/Black Lunch Table/RutgersFeb2020

Black Lunch Table
@ The Art Library, Rutgers
New Brunswick, NJ
	The Art Library, Rutgers
When and Where
Date:	Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Time:	2pm-5pm
Address:	71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901;

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The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project will host an edit-a-thon at Rutgers' Art Library focusing on important but underrepresented visual artists, curators and art workers of the African Diaspora on Tuesday, February 18, 2020 from 2pm-5pm. A training session will be held at the beginning but help is available throughout the event. This event is free.

Please bring your laptop to join the editing! Limited space, so please RSVP here. Snacks provided.

Event description

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) project creates a space to encourage people of color and women to join the Wikimedia movement while also asking other editors to focus on gaps in coverage on Wikimedia. Together we will create historical documents that respond to the urgent need for a reconstruction of the art historical record.

All are invited, with no specialized knowledge of the subject or Wikipedia editing experience required. A brief overview of the basics of Wikipedia editing will be given at the start of the edit-a-thon.

History of The Black Lunch Table

The Black Lunch Table (BLT) is an ongoing collaboration between artists Jina Valentine (Fishantena (talk)) and Heather Hart (Heathart (talk)) which intends to fill holes in the documentation of contemporary art history. In its 13 year existence, the BLT has taken a variety of forms relating to this most recent iteration, in the form of the Wikipedia edit-a-thon. BLT’s aim is the production of discursive sites (at literal and metaphorical lunch tables), wherein cultural producers of color engage in critical dialogue on topics directly affecting our communities. They endeavor to create spaces, online and off, mirroring the activity and creativity present in sites where Blackness and Art are performed.

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About the Art Library

New Brunswick Libraries (NBL) serve the full spectrum of teaching, research and public service activities at RU–NB. Library faculty and staff are committed to meeting the needs of a diverse population through outstanding service, collections, tools, instruction, and partnerships.

The Art Library has over 90,000 volumes related to the Arts. Stop by the Art Library to check out its exhibition spaces!

Event details

Date: Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Time: 2pm-5pm
Location: Art Library, Rutgers–New Brunswick, 71 Hamilton Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Who should attend: Artists, historians, students, photographers, teachers, writers, journalists, curators, visitors, the curious...
- Experienced or new Wikipedians (We will provide assistance with Wikipedia formatting and syntax)
- Amateur historians or research pros (We will have a selection of resources available for your use)
What to Bring: Your laptop and a friend!
Hashtag: #BlackLunchTable
Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - live doc to keep track of what we are all working on
Training: Black Lunch Table Wikipedia Presentation

Agenda

Presentation / overview
Editing time
Goals: Create user account (if new to Wikipedia), create user page with at least one sentence, sign up for edit-a-thon on this Wikipedia Meetup page, make at least one edit to a Wikipedia page
For more information about ongoing scheduled meetups see Black Lunch Table Meetup page

Uploading photos

Possible articles to edit

Suggested artist pages for revision and/or creation! This event-specific list focuses on notable alumni of Rutgers University of the Black diaspora. Please add a name if you know someone appropriate who needs a page or needs editing. Please do not add an artist who has a substantial page. We are trying to create new pages and beef up under-represented ones.

Etherpad: BlackLunchTable - List the article you're working on in this live doc to keep track and avoid duplicate work!
denotes Infobox is needed

These articles are suggested, be sure they qualify according to Wikipedia's NOTABILITY guidlines before you create a new page. Thanks!

Rutgers Alumni or faculty of the Black Diaspora who are visual artists:

official list here

Link to list of Visual Artists of the Black Diaspora from New Jersey:

click here

You can suggest artists here who fit our scope but are missing from our table below:

suggest names here

List of notable African American alumni and faculty of Rutgers University:

Update the list now |SPARQL |Find images

This list is automatically generated from data in Wikidata and is periodically updated by Listeriabot.
Edits made within the list area will be removed on the next update!

Article	Occupation	Educated_at	Employer
Amiri Baraka	poet writer playwright screenwriter music critic journalist prosaist essayist novelist	Howard University Columbia University Rutgers University The New School	University at Buffalo Stony Brook University San Francisco State University
Arnold E. Brown	publisher politician	Bowling Green State University Rutgers University
Avery Brooks	actor film director opera singer pedagogue jazz musician pianist stage actor television actor film actor voice actor theater director	Rutgers University Oberlin College Indiana University	Rutgers University
Bill Bellamy	actor television actor	Rutgers University
Brittney C. Cooper	writer	Emory University Howard University	Rutgers University
Chakaia Booker	visual artist sculptor	City College of New York Rutgers University
Charles T. Epps, Jr.	politician	Bishop College Rutgers University Seton Hall University
Cheri Beasley	lawyer judge	Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Cheryl Clarke	poet writer feminist educator		Rutgers University
Chinelo Okparanta	novelist	Pennsylvania State University Rutgers University	Southern New Hampshire University
Cressie Thigpen	lawyer judge	Rutgers University North Carolina Central University
Dana Redd	politician	Rutgers University Rutgers University–Camden
David Levering Lewis	historian university teacher writer biographer	University of Michigan University of Michigan Law School Fisk University Columbia University London School of Economics and Political Science University of Chicago	Rutgers University Harvard University New York University University of Ghana University of California, San Diego Howard University
Dawud Anyabwile	comics artist illustrator chief executive officer	Rutgers University Temple University
Donald Byrd	jazz trumpeter music pedagogue jazz musician composer recording artist	Wayne State University Columbia University Cass Technical High School Teachers College Manhattan School of Music	Rutgers University Howard University
E. Frederic Morrow	businessperson	Rutgers University Bowdoin College
Eddie Jordan	lawyer	Wesleyan University Rutgers University
Eric Young	baseball player	Rutgers University
Evie Shockley	poet academic writer	Duke University University of Michigan Northwestern University	Rutgers University
Gail D. Mathieu	diplomat	Antioch College Rutgers University Antioch University
Gwendolyn Faison	politician	Rutgers University Temple University Shaw University
Hazel R. O'Leary	politician lawyer	Fisk University Rutgers School of Law–Newark Rutgers University	Fisk University
Heather Hart	artist	Cornish College of the Arts Princeton University Rutgers University
Henry Dumas	writer poet	Rutgers University	University of Illinois system
Howard McCalebb	sculptor	Cornell University California State University, East Bay University of Massachusetts Amherst	Rutgers University Cornell University University of Massachusetts Amherst San José State University Hunter College Pratt Institute University of North Carolina at Greensboro Amherst College Parsons The New School for Design American University of Sharjah
Israel Hicks	theater director	Boston University New York University Tisch School of the Arts Boston University College of Fine Arts	Rutgers University Carnegie Mellon University
Jewel Plummer Cobb	biologist cell biologist	University of Michigan Talladega College New York University	Sarah Lawrence College Connecticut College Rutgers University California State University, Fullerton
John H. Morrow	diplomat	Rutgers University University of Pennsylvania
John McWhorter	linguist scientist	Stanford University New York University Rutgers University	Cornell University Columbia University
Joseph A. Greenaway, Jr.	lawyer judge	Columbia College Columbia University Harvard Law School	Rutgers University Columbia University
Joseph A. Walker	playwright	Howard University The Catholic University of America	Rutgers University
Joseph Charles	politician	Rutgers University
Keith L. T. Wright	politician	Tufts University Rutgers University
Khalil Gibran Muhammad	historian	University of Pennsylvania Rutgers University	Indiana University
Kyle Rapps	rapper	Rutgers University
L. Grace Spencer	lawyer politician	Rutgers University Rutgers School of Law–Newark
Larrie W. Stalks	politician	New York University Rutgers University
Leah Gaskin Fitchue	theologian	Harvard Graduate School of Education Princeton Theological Seminary University of Michigan Rutgers University
Marquis D. Jones, Jr.	lawyer judge	Rutgers University
Mel Edwards	sculptor painter drawer	Yale University University of Southern California Los Angeles City College	Rutgers University
Michael A. Shipp	lawyer judge	Rutgers University Seton Hall University School of Law
Mike Colter	actor television actor film actor	Rutgers University University of South Carolina
Mohamed Sanu	American football player	South Brunswick High School Rutgers University
Nikki Giovanni	poet writer	Fisk University University of Pennsylvania Columbia University	Rutgers University Virginia Tech
Pam Potillo	voice actor actor	Rutgers University Pepperdine University
Paul Robeson	singer lawyer writer musician basketball player American football player film actor stage actor politician	Rutgers University–New Brunswick Columbia Law School School of Oriental and African Studies
Randal Pinkett	businessperson	Keble College MIT Sloan School of Management Massachusetts Institute of Technology Rutgers University
Ray Rice	American football player	New Rochelle High School Rutgers University
Regina Belle	singer actor singer-songwriter	Rutgers University
Robert Trivers	psychologist university teacher biologist	Harvard University	Rutgers University Harvard University University of California Santa Cruz
Ronald Rice	politician	Essex County College Rutgers University John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Roy Hinson	basketball player	Rutgers University
Saeed Jones	poet	Rutgers University Western Kentucky University
Sean Jones	bandleader conductor university teacher trumpeter	Rutgers University
Sheryl Lee Ralph	television actor stage actor film actor singer voice actor screenwriter film producer	Rutgers University
Shirley Ann Jackson	physicist university teacher	Park View School (Washington, DC) Massachusetts Institute of Technology	AT&T Rutgers University Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Shirley Turner	politician	The College of New Jersey Rutgers University Rider University
Sister Souljah	writer autobiographer rapper songwriter film producer	Rutgers University Cornell University University of Salamanca
Stanley Van Ness	lawyer	Rutgers University
Taalam Acey	poet	Rutgers University
Tawny Cypress	actor stage actor television actor film actor	William Esper Studio Rutgers University Boston University
Theodore "Ted" Blunt	politician	Rutgers University Simon Gratz High School Winston-Salem State University
Toni Cade Bambara	poet author novelist university teacher writer	City College of New York Queens College	Rutgers University
Toni Morrison	writer novelist librettist university teacher poet children's writer	Howard University Cornell University Rutgers University	Princeton University
Treena Livingston Arinzeh	engineer	Johns Hopkins University Rutgers University University of Pennsylvania School of Engineering and Applied Science National Science Foundation	New Jersey Institute of Technology
Vivian E. Browne	painter graphic designer illustrator visual artist printmaker	Hunter College University of Ibadan	Rutgers University
William D. Payne	politician	Rutgers University
William Jelani Cobb	educator writer	Howard University Rutgers University	University of Connecticut Spelman College The New Yorker