Sheron Hamilton Pearson, noted community development activist, along with 14 other sector leaders from the New York area, was awarded The Foundation Award, for contributions to community development and civic life at the Lawman Lynch Foundation’s 2023 Music for Life and Foundation Awards, held at the Maggie Walker Auditorium in Brooklyn on Saturday May 13, 2023.
In the 2022 Kops Freedom of the Press Lecture, journalist Tristan Ahtone and historian Robert Lee discussed their investigations of how land grant universities, including Cornell, financially benefited from Indigenous displacement.