Ford Foundation grant funds Reclaiming the Border Narrative Digital Archive website July 27, 2023 Archive website is now live Image The Vasquez and Lopez families at a picnic with friends from Benson. Photo from the Special Collections Southwestern, and Borderlands Photograph Collection (circa 1910), Cowboys-File 1-Folder 2-ak Reclaiming the Border Narrative Digital Archive is now live and houses projects that illuminate dignity, joy, resilience, resistance, beauty, sorrow, humor, love, and everything in between and, in the process, expose and transcend colonial narratives and externally imposed perspectives of the U.S.-Mexico border. Funded by the Ford Foundation, the University of Arizona Confluencenter for Creative Inquiry and University Libraries Special Collections are digital archive partners with dozens of U.S.-Mexico borderlands artists, advocates, journalists, and cultural practitioners to build and activate a digital archive of projects aimed at Reclaiming the Border Narrative, advancing migrant justice and addressing gaps in the archival record. Related news Reclaiming the Border Narrative awarded $1.18 million grant Contacts University Libraries Marketing & Communications LBRY-News@email.arizona.edu