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Black History Month edit-a-thons tackle Wikipedia’s multicultural gaps

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Group editing Wikipedia at the Schomburg Center in New York City
For Black History Month, many new Wikipedia articles about black culture were created in edit-a-thons across the United States, such as this at the "BlackLivesMatter" event at the Schomburg Center in New York City. Photo by Terrence Jennings, free license under CC BY-SA 4.0.