The Program in Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship, in conjunction with the Billie Holiday Project for Liberation Arts and the Sheridan Libraries, has been awarded a Just Futures grant from the Mellon Foundation, part of a $72 million new initiative.\u00a0The project, \u201cInheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation,\u201d represents a joint programming and research effort to preserve black archival resources, curate black arts\u00a0and public heritage, and\u00a0expand local infrastructure for\u00a0freedom education in partnership with Baltimore\u2019s Orita\u2019s Cross Freedom School.\u00a0\u201cInheritance Baltimore\u201d also provides support for incoming postdoctoral fellows, graduate students, undergraduates, and faculty committed to documenting the history of institutional racism in the formation of academic disciplines at and outward from Johns Hopkins University.\u00a0The coordinating team consists of Nathan Connolly and Stuart Schrader of RIC, Kali-Ahset Amen and Lawrence Jackson of the Holiday Project, and Joseph Plaster\u00a0and Gabrielle Dean\u00a0from Sheridan Libraries.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Please see the JHU Hub articl<\/a>e<\/a> for additional details. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Inside Higher Education<\/em> has further coverage<\/a> of Inheritance Baltimore and the Just Futures initiative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The JHU News-Letter<\/em> has additional coverage<\/a> of Inheritance Baltimore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n