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Kali-Ahset Amen, of Johns Hopkins University, said efforts like this West Baltimore community mural a Black heritage/neighborhood beautification project done in collaboration with African American churches will be enhanced with Mellon funding.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday announced about $72 million in total grants for 16 different humanities-based projects focused on issues of racial justice.
The “Just Futures” grants of up to $5 million each will “support multidisciplinary and multi-institutional collaborative teams producing solutions-based work that contributes to public understanding of the nation’s racist past and can lead to the creation of socially just futures,” according to the foundation.
January 13, 2021 In 2019, University President Joan Gabel with Minnesota tribal leaders during her inauguration.
Executive Vice President and Provost Rachel T.A. Croson announced today that The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University a $5 million grant to address racial justice and create more just and equitable futures for all through public humanities.
“This statewide initiative deepens the University’s relationships with our diverse communities, with a focus on developing new knowledge, visions and practices for inclusion and justice,” said Croson. “It will enable progress on multiple elements of our Systemwide Strategic Plan, including advancing the arts and humanities through strategic collaborations, strengthening relations with Tribal Nations, and working in partnership with underserved local communities to enhance access to higher education, among other shared goals.”
Last year was unlike any other in recent memory, as our communities were devastated by the deadliest pandemic in a century. For most people, 2021 could not have come soon enough. Besides contending with the pandemic, 2020 also brought a slew of changes to
Tribal College Journal. We bade farewell to our longest serving employee and good friend, publisher Rachael Marchbanks, and moved out of our old office in Mancos where TCJ had been rooted for over 20 years. Through it all, we somehow managed to maintain our regular publishing schedule, hold one of our most competitive creative writing, art, and film contests to date, forge ahead with our online auction, and even expand our editorial offerings.