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<p>Many archivists are reevaluating workflows and practices in order to create more equitable, anti-oppressive, and anti-racist metadata in their repositories. This important work is foregrounded by the <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ardr_202010.pdf" target="_blank">Anti-Racist Description Resources</a>, </em>authored by the Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia&#8217;s (A4BLiP) Anti-Racist Description Working Group. <em>Archives in Context</em> spoke with A4BLiP&#8217;s Anti-Racist Description Working Group members Alexis A. Antracoli, Annalise Berdini, Faith Charlton, Valencia Johnson, and Katy Rawdon on the creation of the <em>Anti-Racist Description Resources </em>and ways that archivists can begin addressing racist and oppressive description in their repositories.</p>



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<p>Learn more about <a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="https://archivesforblacklives.wordpress.com/" target="_blank">Archives for Black Lives in Philadelphia,</a> and check out the <em><a rel="noreferrer noopener" href="http://ives.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ardr_202010.pdf" target="_blank">Anti-Racist Description Resources</a></em><a href="https://archivesforblacklives.files.wordpress.com/2020/11/ardr_202010.pdf">.</a></p>

Season 5, Episode 6: Archives, Community, and Education at the Library of Congress with Danna Bell and Guha Shankar

Archives in Context is a podcast about archives and the people behind them. Members of the podcast team include Mary Caldera, Adreonna Bennett, Conor Casey, Lauren Kata, Emily Mathay, Camila Zorrilla Tessler, Carmela Furio, Kate Greenberg, and Hannah Stryker. All opinions expressed in this podcast are our own and are not reflective of a particular institution.