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……

Wesleyan College announces new Center for Social and Racial Equity

Wesleyan College is one of nine U.S. colleges and universities chosen to participate in a three-year project funded by a $5 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each geographically dispersed and organizationally diverse institution will partner with a community organization to develop tangible, research-informed solutions for racial and social inequities. Wesleyan is proud……

Mellon Foundation Awards More Than $72 Million to Ensure “Just Futures”

New York, NY – January 13, 2021 — The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the largest funder of the arts and humanities in the US, announced today that grants totaling more than $72 million have been awarded to winners of its Just Futures Initiative—supporting teams of scholars who are studying past periods of crisis and disruption……