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A $750,000 grant from the Mellon Foundation will help fund a collaborative public humanities effort among UNO’s Midlo Center, the Neighborhood Story Project and the Justice Studies Ph.D. Program.
Freedom on the Move, a digital database with information on people who escaped or attempted to escape enslavement in the United States, has been awarded the 2023 Digital Humanities Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities.
Today on Louisiana Considered, we’ve dedicated our entire show to Juneteenth. We learn how to celebrate the holiday around the country and right here, in Louisiana. And we hear about Freedom on the Move, an online database that seeks to document the lives of fugitives from North American slavery.