Black EphemeraPROSE Award Music and Performing Arts Category Winner A framework for understanding the deep archive of Black performance in the digital era In an era of Big Data and algorithms, our easy access to the archive of contemporary and historical Blackness is unprecedented. That iterations of Black visual art, such as Bert Williamss 1916 silent film short A Natural Born Gambler or the performances of Josephine Baker from the 1920s, are merely a quick