Photo courtesy of Shook Photos / Flickr Project Description Wofford College and the wider Spartanburg community are collaborating to develop plans for racial reparations solutions that are both community-grounded and research-informed. The initial phase of our community-campus partnership involves extensive information-gathering, focused on historic and ongoing harms against descendants of enslaved laborers in Spartanburg, South……
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Bridge Detroit: What to expect from Detroit’s new reparations taskforce
In November, 80% of Detroit voters supported the creation of a taskforce to explore reparations for the City’s past discriminatory policies. Once established, the taskforce will make recommendations to the City Council. However, it will not have the power to enact any changes at the municipal level on its own. Read Full Article
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……
Crafting Democratic Futures: Carnegie Mellon University
Vidar Nordli-Mathisen / Unsplash Project Description Under the leadership of PI, Dr. Joe William Trotter, Jr., director of Carnegie Mellon’s Center for Africanamerican Urban Studies and the Economy (CAUSE), 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 Pittsburgh’s African……
Flint Beat: Flint leader joins nationwide reparations project
Flint, MI—A Flint leader has been chosen to be part of a nationwide effort to create racial reparation solutions for communities of color. Asa Zuccaro, executive director of the Latinx Technology and Community Center was recently named a community fellow within the program “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions.” He……
MLive: Community engagement a major force behind U-M reparations project for Black and Native communities
A team of experts based out of the University of Michigan are working to ensure a “just future” for Black and Native communities in the form of reparations. The University of Michigan Center for Social Solutions is almost a year into research for the project “Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations……
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……