"Quite frankly, we're very proud to be a part of this project. In the traditional history books, African American history often gets short shrift. As this project is no doubt going to show, there is a very rich trove of content that is still pretty difficult to (access) because it’s analog... paper or film.
"What we're doing is creating that 'connective tissue' between all that stuff that's tucked away and what we believe is a rather large group in American culture that really wants to have access to this.
"It's a way for African Americans to take control of how their history has been told and represented."
| A quote from Ninestars president Michael Hart in Hays Goodman's Newspapers and Technology's "Companies launch historic collaboration to digitize black newspapers, create archive"
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