Dear CDF teams, It is the third week of March and (perhaps) Spring has finally arrived! This month, we’re highlighting the work from Wesleyan College in Macon, Georgia: “Through a series of facilitated, collaborative discussions, Wesleyan College’s new Lane Center for Social and Racial Equity and our Community Partner, the Tubman Museum, are working with……
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CDF Newsletter: February 2022
Dear CDF teams, Happy February! It’s been a while since we last connected via newsletter. This month, we’re highlighting the work from Wofford College in Spartanburg, South Carolina: “The initial phase of [Spartanburg’s] community-campus partnership involves extensive information-gathering, focused on historic and ongoing harms against descendants of enslaved laborers in Spartanburg, South Carolina. These losses……
New Funding to Support Spelman College to Support Educational Initiatives Focused on Reparations
ATLANTA (February 25, 2021) While Congress continues to mull over the decades-old “Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African Americans Act (HB-40),” which has been introduced in legislative sessions since 1989, Spelman College students and faculty members are researching solutions to address the generational impact of the transatlantic slave trade. Through a collaboration……
GPB: Macon museum’s ‘Block the Hate’ exhibit is aimed at taking you back to the summer of 2020
The flare of activism around the movement for Black lives in Macon in 2020 was intense, brief and, thankfully, well documented. Now the Block the Hate exhibit at the Tubman African American Museum will create a space for work documenting the summer of one and a half years ago in Macon while also providing a……
CDF Newsletter: November 2021
Dear team,As we begin to approach the end of the semester for many, we will keep communications light! It was great to convene all together last month—we hope you found the biannual convening of Crafting Democratic Futures Teams helpful and inspiring as we continue moving forward.This month we are reflecting on ways to decolonize and……
Digital Scholarship Fellows Program Supports the “Just Futures New London” Oral History Project
We are excited to announce that Assistant Professor of Psychology Nakia Hamlett and Professor of Psychology Jefferson Singer joined the Digital Scholarship Fellows program this semester to continue work on their Just Futures New London project. The three-year project is part of the multi-institutional Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions……
CDF Newsletter: October 2021
TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Carnegie Mellon University team. “Pittsburgh’s ‘Democratic Futures’ project brings together college and university humanities scholars with community-based organizations and grassroots social activists to produce a comprehensive history of……
CDF Newsletter: September 2021
TEAM HIGHLIGHT As part of our internal Crafting Democratic Futures communications, we highlight one team’s story every month. This month, we’re sharing broadly the work of the Rutgers-Newark team. “Newark boasts an especially lively local-history community, and we are establishing a community research fellows component that will engage institutions and individuals whose research and archival……
Building an Equitable Future: Connecticut College Just Futures
A collaboration between Connecticut College and the New London community is bringing the past and present together, in hopes of a more just future for residents of color. The Connecticut College initiative is part of “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions,” a three-year collaborative project supported by a $5 million……
The Thin Red Line: Conn explores reparations for people of color living in the New London community, thanks to a Mellon grant
When Spencer Lancaster, a World War II Army veteran, bought a house in New London in 1972, the neighbors circulated a petition to keep him out. Lonnie Braxton II, a Navy veteran who tried to buy a house in New London around the same time, watched as banks approved mortgages for his friends at Electric……