The Southern Digital Culture Lab centers Black communal archival practices and the use of social media, blogging and digital archives to share and excavate Black Southern histories. The SDCL aims to bring together community members, scholars and students who are intellectually and politically committed to scholarship and activism in and on the Black South. We hold that the Black South is suspended in particular historical moments, without space for new lines of inquiry and possibilities. Even as most Black people still live in the South, it is often deemed derivative of Northern cities, and is always framed as a place to abandon or escape from. Our group is founded on four key principles and commitments. One, the Black South is a constellation: a group of ideas, experiences, traditions, and histories, that are always in motion, dynamic, and fluid. Two, the Black South is diasporic, it has its own diaspora, and is deeply tied to the Global South. Three, the Black South is geographical. Black Southerners engage in their own forms of placemaking and create their own epistemologies. And four, the Black South is digital.