New project unites digital humanities, Black studies, and data and computation
Black Beyond Data, a new project backed by a $300,000 Mellon grant, will seek to create an open resource for scholars to combat racial injustice through digital humanities
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There is a general belief that data is objective, neutral, and therefore accurate. Numbers don t lie, goes the oft-repeated maxim. But what about the people interpreting the data: can individuals really be objective or neutral? Who gets to decide which data is important? And what about the stories and truths that data can t tell?
A team of researchers, on a mission to address some of these weaknesses, has received a $300,000 planning grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for their project, Black Beyond Data: Computational Humanities and Social Sciences Laboratory for Black Digital Humanities. By weaving together three digital humanities projects, Black Beyond Data connects the fields of
Mellon Foundation awards $4 million grant to Inheritance Baltimore project
The project will pioneer new methods of instruction, research, and archival preservation that bring the history of the Black Baltimoreans to the fore By Doug Donovan / Published Jan 14, 2021
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and building a citywide network to preserve Baltimore s Black history, culture, and arts.
The project, Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation, will pioneer methods of instruction, research, preservation, and doctoral education that works with Black institutions to bring the experiences of Baltimore s Black community to the fore and combat institutional racism. The project will also document and preserve the ways Black people attained knowledge wi
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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and building a citywide network to preserve Baltimore’s African American history, culture and arts.
The project, “Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation,” will pioneer methods of teaching, research, preservation, and doctoral education that works with Black institutions to foreground the experiences of Baltimore’s Black community and combat institutional racism. The project will also document and preserve the ways African Americans attained knowledge within and outside of academic disciplines.
After 50 years of training his camera lens on the city, Baltimore photographer John Clark Mayden is enjoying something of a moment. Last year, he published his first book. Now, a number of his powerful images are featured in "Between the World and Me," an HBO film based on the literary work of Ta-Nehisi Coates.