Record status
Verified records
Completed institutional actions with a source trail, reviewed coding fields, and enough evidence to cite as an action.
The codebook explains what counts as an action, how institutions are categorized, and how pending records move through verification.
The largest category is removal of racist symbols from public space, including statues, monuments, and school names. Other categories include organizational change, policy reform, resource contribution, accountability, and public statements.
Local governments are the largest institution category in the verified records, followed by universities and K-12 districts. Each row should be read with its institution type, action type, date, and source.
The public site uses three plain record states: verified records, pending review, and source-only records. Provenance still travels with each row, but verified records are not split into separate public buckets.
Completed institutional actions with a source trail, reviewed coding fields, and enough evidence to cite as an action.
Evidence rows that provide source title, URL, category, notes, and location context, but are not presented as completed institutional actions.
Rows that may become verified records after a contributor or editor checks the source, action date, institution, location, and coding fields.
Records are grouped by action: removal of racist symbols, organizational change, expression of solidarity, resource contribution, policy reform, accountability, and related categories.
Institutions include local government, schools, higher education, public agencies, companies, cultural organizations, philanthropy, and civic bodies.
The complete static dataset is available as CSV and JSON. Month-level calendar exports are generated in-browser from the same JSON file.
Volunteer submissions enter the review queue as pending records. Editors confirm the source, normalize dates and categories, add location data when available, and then publish verified rows back into the public static dataset.
Approved contributors can use the D4SC contributor workspace to add new evidence, submit corrections, and support the verification workflow without entering the WordPress dashboard.