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Emory joins national Mellon Foundation research project to address racial reparations
Emory University will be part of a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions, led by former Emory Provost Earl Lewis, as part of the Foundation’s Just Futures initiative. “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions” emerges from the Center for Social Solutions’ focus on slavery and its aftermath, and is informed by three generations of humanistic scholarship and what that scholarship suggests for all seeking just futures. More information here.
The team of scholars will be led by historian Carol Anderson, Emory’s Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies and department chair. The team also includes Emory College faculty members Vanessa Siddle Walker, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of African American Studies, and AAS assistant
Teams at U-M, MSU win grants to study racial inequality
The foundation received 165 proposals but only chose 16 teams to receive the grants of up to $5 million. Teams from MSU and U-M won three of those 16 grants. Author: Amy McNeel (WZZM13), Associated Press Published: 10:32 PM EST January 18, 2021 Updated: 10:32 PM EST January 18, 2021
MICHIGAN, USA Teams from Michigan State University (MSU) and the University of Michigan (U-M) have been awarded grants focused on addressing racial inequality.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Future Initiative competition awarded more than $72 million in grants for 16 humanities, arts and humanities-inflected social sciences projects across the U.S. The foundation said the initiative was designed to support “visionary, unconventional, experiment and groundbreaking projects in order to address the long-existing fault lines of racism, inequality and injustice that tear at the fabric
Emory University will be part of a $5 million grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded to the University of Michigan’s Center for Social Solutions and multiple higher education partners as part of the Foundation’s Just Futures initiative.
The project, which will span three years, creates and leverages a national network of college and university-based humanities scholars working in partnerships with community-based organizations to develop research-informed reparation plans for each location.
Emory will be among the network of nine geographically dispersed and organizationally different colleges and universities that will involve community fellows as well as local organizations in a collaborative public history reckoning designed to offer tangible suggestions for community-based racial reparations solutions.
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