MIT Black History

We built the MIT Black History Project's original Drupal site nearly a decade ago, and as the platform aged, the client invited us back to rebuild it on a modern, self-sustaining foundation. The engagement involved migrating thousands of archival items, stories, and publications off an aging Drupal 8 database and into a new Webflow CMS, preserving years of scholarly content while rebuilding the underlying architecture from the ground up. The result is an archive built for how people search for history today. Items are fully filterable by timeline, MIT school, department, and career path, and searchable in seconds, whether a visitor is a scholar tracing a specific decade or a student discovering the archive for the first time. We built this for both traditional search engines and today's AI answer engines, so this history surfaces wherever people are looking for it. The site is fast, secure, and maintenance-free, built to grow with the archive for years to come. We are proud to be a partner in this project and share the vision of its members: to inspire young people to pursue their dreams, and to continue researching and disseminating the materials that illuminate this rich and significant legacy.