Amidst erasure of U.S. government websites, Kari Bassett `98 preserves Iowa’s oldest Black newspaper

Following the erasure of thousands of federal government websites, students and faculty supported Kari Bassett’s `98 latest project for Preserving Black History, an event hosted by the Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies and Digital Studies Student Educational Policy Committees (SEPCs). Bassett’s project involves archiving The Iowa Bystander, the first Black-owned newspaper west of the Mississippi....