Jacqueline Goldsby and collaborators receive $1.7M Mellon grant for Black Bibliography Project

Jacqueline Goldsby, the Thomas E. Donnelly Professor of African American Studies and English, received a $1.7 million grant from The Mellon Foundation to support the development of The Black Bibliography Project (BBP), an initiative that aims to revive and transform descriptive bibliography for African American and Black Diaspora literary studies. Together with co-director Meredith McGill of Rutgers University and staff from Yale Library and Beinecke Library, the BBP will offer new pathways for understanding the history of Black-published books, magazines, and newspapers. Read more at Yale News.