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African Americans who migrated to the North and West “didn’t go there as immigrants, they went there as refugees and exiles from terror.”—Bryan Stevenson, founder of @eji_org and subject of the film #JustMercy , on rethinking the Great Migration

Rethinking Migration — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative

On a six-acre park in Montgomery, Alabama, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice stands just hundreds of feet from the site of a former slave market. B...

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Today, @FordFoundation , @MellonFdn & @MacFound announced the transfer of sole ownership of the Ebony & Jet archives to the @NMAAHC and the Getty Research Institute (with a further $30M commitment from Getty to digitize the collection): [1/2]

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The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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Black people who migrated to the North and West “didn’t go there as immigrants, they went there as refugees and exiles from terror.” — @eji_org Founder and Executive Director Bryan Stevenson on rethinking “The Great Migration.”

Rethinking Migration — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative

On a six-acre park in Montgomery, Alabama, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice stands just hundreds of feet from the site of a former slave market. B...

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“If you took a vote, the majority of people would never have voted to end racial segregation. It took a commitment to the rule of law.”—Bryan Stevenson, founder of @eji_org and subject of the new film #JustMercy

Rule of Law — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative

On a six-acre park in Montgomery, Alabama, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice stands just hundreds of feet from the site of a former slave market. B...

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As many as five million Indigenous Americans were enslaved between the 16th and 19th centuries. Axios reports on @NatBoundUnbound , a massive new digital humanities project that will uncover their stories: #MellonGrant

Website to uncover the forgotten story of Indigenous enslavement

The general public knows very little of Indigenous enslavement in the U.S. and Latin America.

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The former home of the legendary poet Lucille Clifton has been transformed into a haven for young artists.

A Legendary Poet’s Home Becomes a Sanctuary for Young Artists

A From the Heart Productions, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.

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“You think about the kind of hearts, souls, and minds that were required to endure and survive [slavery and racial terror]…and still have the capacity to love.””—Bryan Stevenson, founder of @eji_org and subject of the new film #JustMercy

Courage, Spirit, and Soul — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative

On a six-acre park in Montgomery, Alabama, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice stands just hundreds of feet from the site of a former slave market. B...

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How can colleges and universities evolve in their efforts to increase access for students who have historically been denied entry? Watch here to learn more about the possibilities and challenges in #highered today: #Mellon50

The Possibilities and Challenges of Higher Learning Today, Clip 1

What are the greatest obstacles facing higher education communities today? Two of the most critical are economic challenges and a broken criminal justice sy...

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What is the role of the #arts and #humanities —and of individuals—in combating structural racism and promoting #diversity as a value unto itself? @michele_norris and Sherrilyn Ifill ( @Sifill_LDF ) explore in these videos from our #Mellon50 symposium:

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“If you took a vote, the majority of people would never have voted to end racial segregation. It took a commitment to the rule of law.”—Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director, Equal Justice Initiative ( @eji_org )

Rule of Law — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative

On a six-acre park in Montgomery, Alabama, the National Memorial for Peace and Justice stands just hundreds of feet from the site of a former slave market. B...

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In 2021, the former Baltimore home of poet Lucille Clifton will open as a space for aspiring and established #writers and #artists : #MellonGrantee

Clifton House to open as sanctuary for artists to grow their craft

The children of a highly influential Maryland poet are turning their parents' Windsor Hills home into a place that will teach and inspire.

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Amanda Gorman, the first-ever @librarycongress National Youth Poet Laureate, will go on to achieve another first next Wednesday as our nation's youngest-ever inaugural poet: #Inauguration2021 #Poetry

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“The argument that the Internet Archive isn’t a library is wrong. If this argument is accepted, the results would jeopardize the future development of digital libraries nationwide.”

Librarians should stand with the Internet Archive (opinion)

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“You think about the kind of hearts and souls and minds that were required to endure and survive [slavery and racial terror]…and still have the capacity to love.”—Bryan Stevenson, founder & exec. director, Equal Justice Initiative ( @eji_org )

Courage, Spirit, and Soul — Bryan Stevenson, Equal Justice Initiative

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As America evolves, how do we address monuments and historic sites that do not fully reflect our cultural values—and mindfully build new ones that do? @SavingPlaces ’ @BrentLeggs and others shared their thoughts at our #Mellon50 symposium:

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President of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Elizabeth Alexander and panelists address one of the most urgent cultural topics of our time: How do we address...

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"Of the more than 95,000 entries on the National Register of Historic Places—the list of sites deemed worthy of preservation by the federal government—only 2% focus on the experiences of black Americans." #TellTheFullStory @SavingPlaces

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“The arts and humanities…teach us who we are and where we are, and give us a sense of our reason for being.”— @WyntonMarsalis . Watch the #Mellon50 film directed by @StanleyNelson1 :

The Mellon Foundation at 50

Over the past five decades, the grantees of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation have used the arts and humanities to deepen our understanding of the human condit...

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Ebony’s Photo Archive Goes for $30 Million, for Future in Public View—"We...cannot even fully measure what it is going to mean to have these images available," says @MellonFdn Pres. Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ): (via @nytimes ' @juliebosman )

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"We're at a moment where we have to decide who we're going to be." @NAACP_LDF ’s Sherrilyn Ifill ( @Sifill_LDF ) on #diversity in America and why demography does not necessarily define our destiny:

Sherrilyn Ifill and Michele Norris on the American Diversity Project...

"We're at a moment where we have to decide who we're going to be." Sherrilyn Ifill explains why demography does not necessarily define our nation's destiny. ...

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Announcing the first-of-a-kind Latinx Artist Fellowship, a $50K unrestricted award to 15 of the most compelling Latinx visual artists working in the US today. In partnership with @uslaforum and the @FordFoundation : #LatinxArtistFellowship #LatinxArt #Art

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A consortium of foundations—including @MellonFdn , @FordFoundation , @macfound & @GettyFoundation —has acquired the photo archives of the defunct publisher of the iconic Ebony and Jet magazines. They will be donated to public institutions including @NMAAHC :

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“Being in a place, standing on the land, is a spiritual act in which you begin to form a relationship with the very molecular structure of the place.”— @JudyBaca , founder, Social and Public Art Resource Center ( @sparcinla ) #Mellon50

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Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander asks us to consider “the sacred charge of lifting up marginalized histories." By uncovering and sharing eras...

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@FordFoundation @macfound @NMAAHC “This archive is not only unprecedented in its sweeping and scrupulous documentation of Black life in the US, but also unmatched in its celebration of the Black American experience throughout the 20th century.” — Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) [2/2]

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. @MellonFdn has joined a $1.7+ billion partnership to offer emergency grants to nonprofits financially devastated by the pandemic. Our $200 million in support will be directed to #arts , #humanities & #highered : #philanthropyjoinsforces #MellonResponds

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“We affirm the right of those who are incarcerated to robust participation in the imaginative & intellectual life of American society, & we are determined to do our part to help rectify systemic inequities that currently exclude them.”—Elizabeth Alexander

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“African American history is essential to understanding who we are…and remembering not just what we want to remember—but what we need to remember.”— @SmithsonianSec Lonnie G. Bunch III on establishing @NMAAHC #MellonEvent

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Did you know that April is #NationalPoetryMonth ? Earlier this year, the Foundation made its largest grants to date in support of poetry, to the Academy of American Poets ( @POETSorg ):

Mellon Foundation Grants $2.2 Million to Academy of American Poets (Published 2019)

Two grants will help start a new fellowship program and support the work of the Poetry Coalition.

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“I believe profoundly in the resilient power of the arts to enrich peoples’ lives, in good times and bad."— @KaywinFeldman , director of the National Gallery of Art ( @ngadc ), on the role of #art in uncertain times: #Museums #MuseumMonday #leadership

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We are thrilled to share that Justin Garrett Moore ( @jgmoore ), currently exec. director of @nycpublicdesign , will be joining Mellon's team as our inaugural program officer for Humanities in Place: #MonumentsProject #Philanthropy #HumanitiesInPlace

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What are some of the greatest obstacles facing #highered today? Economic challenges & broken criminal justice system, say @GeorgiaStateU 's Mark Becker, @EJPillinois 's Rebecca Ginsburg, @NorthwesternU 's Jonathan Holloway & @PVAMU 's Ruth J. Simmons #Mellon50

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Carrie Mae Weems is the first African American woman to win the Hasselblad Award, one of the most prestigious honors bestowed on a living photographer.

Carrie Mae Weems Makes History as First Black Woman to Win Prestigious Hasselblad Photography Prize

Carrie Mae Weems has become the first Black woman to be awarded the prestigious Hasselblad photography prize.

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Today we announced a $10 million gift to @CUNY to support initiatives related to the #Arts , #Humanities , #RacialJustice , and #COVID . Read more:

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. @MellonFdn President Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) on providing $5 million of seed funding to #ArtistRelief , a fund that will give $5,000 emergency grants to individual artists in partnership with @USAforArts and other grantmakers:

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Why Mellon Decided Not to Give a Grant to @UNC —a letter to the @Chronicle from @MellonFdn President Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ):

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“What we’re aspiring to is a teaching cadre at the highest levels that represents the glorious #diversity of this country.”— @MellonFdn Pres. Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ). Watch & learn more about the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship: #MMUF30

Toward a More Inclusive Academy: MMUF at 30

A signature initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program addresses the problem of underrepresentati...

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Launched today by @michiganstateu and partners, makes public 600K+ records of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historic trade: #DH #Humanities #History #PublicKnowledge

Enslaved: Peoples of the Historical Slave Trade

Explore or reconstruct the lives of individuals who were enslaved, owned slaves, or participated in the historical trade.

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Today, February 13, @haymarketbooks and Mellon Foundation are pleased to announce the inaugural cohort for the Writing Freedom Fellowship. The Fellowship aims to support and uplift the voices of writers impacted by the criminal legal system. Learn more:

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Mellon president @ProfessorEA with a deeply personal essay in @NewYorker on the experience of witnessing ongoing race-based violence and how it shapes the worldview of young black people #TrayvonGeneration #SayTheirNames

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“A collective act made by teams of people…requires assembling an enormity of different perspectives.” Michael Murphy of @MASSDesignLab discusses how artists, architects, and activists can co-create to deliver a shared vision for the future:

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What are the possibilities for collaboration between cultural narrators, artists, and activists? Three leaders examine these relationships through a diverse ...

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RSVP to join us Weds @ 5pm ET for a panel discussion featuring Dr. Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ), Jarrett Martin Drake, Dr. Carla Hayden ( @LibnOfCongress ) & Dr. Kelly Lytle Hernández ( @klytlehernandez ): #MellonGoesLive #Libraries #Archives #History

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We would like to welcome our next President, Distinguished Writer, Poet, Scholar, and Arts Advocate Elizabeth Alexander @ProfessorEA , who will will lead the Mellon Foundation in drawing new partners in to support the arts and humanities. @ProfessorEA

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Together with @FordFoundation , we are excited to announce the 2022 #DisabilityFutures Fellows—a grant administered by @USAforART that increases the visibility of disabled creative practitioners and elevates their voices individually and collectively.

2022 Disability Futures Fellows - Ford Foundation

Meet the Disability Future Fellows disabled artists and creatives advancing the cultural landscape.

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Why examining our past opens up a world of ideas and hope—“I think it's the only way towards the future, that we are able to accurately tell the truth of our history,” said Michael Murphy of @MASSDesignLab at our #Mellon50 symposium: #architecture #history

Expanding the American Story, Clip 1

Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander asks us to consider “the sacred charge of lifting up marginalized histories." By uncovering and sharing eras...

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The Long 19th Amendment Project at @RadInstitute hopes to redefine our understanding of the #WomensSuffrage movement by exploring its achievements and shortcomings—and their implications for our lives today:

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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce that Alondra Nelson ( @alondra ), president of @ssrc_org and the Harold F. Linder Professor of Social Science at @the_IAS , has been elected to its Board of Trustees:

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Today is #WorldPoetryDay . Earlier this year, @NYTimes interviewed @MellonFdn President Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) on two recent grants to the Academy of American Poets ( @POETSorg ) that “bring forward into communities the value of poetry.”

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“Education belongs to all of us. It’s not just for people who can pay.”—Ruth J. Simmons, President of Prairie View A&M University ( @PVAMU ), on possibilities and challenges in #highered today: #Mellon50

The Possibilities and Challenges of Higher Learning Today, Clip 3

Ruth J. Simmons, president of Prairie View A&M University, and Jonathan Holloway, provost of Northwestern University, acknowledge that administrators have fa...

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At our #Mellon50 symposium, Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) asked us to consider “the sacred charge of lifting up marginalized histories” with cultural leaders— @sparcinla ’s @JudyBaca , @SavingPlaces ’ @BrentLeggs , and @MASSDesignLab ’s Michael Murphy:

Expanding the American Story, Clip 1

Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander asks us to consider “the sacred charge of lifting up marginalized histories." By uncovering and sharing eras...

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. @PBS @NewsHour 's #RaceMatters series continues with a segment featuring @DrIbram , author of "How to Be An Antiracist," and Robin DiAngelo, author of “White Fragility," in conversation w/ @IAmAmnaNawaz : #humanities #socialjustice

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This morning NYU announced that @ProfessorEA —poet and president of @MellonFdn —will be the #NYU2019 All-University Commencement speaker! She will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree, honoris causa, at @yankeestadium .

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#MonumentsProject will transform the way our histories are told through the reimagining and rebuilding of commemorative spaces that celebrate and affirm all of the communities that make up the US: #Monuments #Memorials #Grants

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“Art does for me what religion traditionally does...organizes a seemingly chaotic universe.”—Bill T. Jones #Mellon50

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Following her groundbreaking tenure at Baltimore’s @centerstage_md , we are thrilled to welcome theater leader and arts equity advocate @saybarra as our next Program Officer in Arts and Culture:

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Today is the launch of #DisabilityFutures , a new initiative funded by @FordFoundation & @MellonFdn to amplify the voices of disabled artists individually & collectively. Meet the first cohort of Disability Futures Fellows: #DisabilityInclusion @USAforArt

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. @TIME magazine has named Mellon President Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) a #titan and one of the most influential people of 2022: (1/2) #TIME100

Elizabeth Alexander: The 100 Most Influential People of 2022

Find out why Elizabeth Alexander is on this year’s list

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An overwhelming majority of Americans believe that the #humanities strengthen our #democracy , says a new survey. Read the full report from Humanities Indicators, a project of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences ( @americanacad ), here: 💃🏾📰📚🏛✏️🗳

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Over the past five decades, @MellonFdn grantees have used the #arts and #humanities to deepen our understanding of the human condition and experience. Their transformative work is celebrated in the #Mellon50 film directed by @StanleyNelson1 :

The Mellon Foundation at 50

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“The website itself is a reflection of our goal to create an open-source, open access, digital discovery tool to understand the lives of the enslaved. We also see ourselves as being part of a broader conversation about race and racism."— @DaryleWilliams

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A warm welcome to our incoming Fellows in Residence: author @ClintSmithIII and @IRAASColumbiaU inaugural chair Farah Jasmine Griffin ( @FJasmineG )!

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“You have to unlock these archives and make sure that more people can get into them, not just researchers and scholars. Everyone.”--Dr. Carla Hayden ( @LibnOfCongress ) #MellonGoesLive #Archives #Libraries @librarycongress

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Today we are proud to share with you our new Mellon identity. Dynamic, nimble, and inspired by many voices, the new Mellon look is but one part of the new expression of our enduring mission. (1/2)

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Mellon President @ProfessorEA revisits her seminal essay on Rodney King & discusses how videos of police brutality against King, George Floyd & others have “forged a traumatized collective historical memory” all the way through today's #TrayvonGeneration :

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“What pushes us forward are usually little, teeny, tiny decisions.”— @michele_norris , journalist and founder of @RaceCardProject , on achieving enduring and transformational change for social justice: #Mellon50

Sherrilyn Ifill and Michele Norris on the American Diversity Project...

Michele Norris and Sherrilyn Ifill reflect on the small decisions we make in our everyday lives that will, with enough patience, push us forward in our natio...

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“If you want to understand American history, you have to understand the South,” said Amarie Cemone Gipson, a curator, archivist and new research fellow at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston

A curator’s library of books on Black artists finds a home in Houston

In addition to assembling her own roving art book library, Amarie Cemone Gipson is a research fellow on a project in Houston to preserve and promote the history of Freedmen's Town

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We are thrilled to announce that Phillip Brian Harper, currently dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Science at @NYUniversity , will be joining us as our new program director for #HigherLearning effective October 1: #HigherEd #Philanthropy

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We also congratulate historian and @AntiracismCtr Director @DrIbram , who holds the Andrew W. Mellon Professorship in the Humanities at Boston University ( @BU_Tweets ). @MacFound #MacFellow

Ibram X. Kendi, American Historian and Writer | 2021 MacArthur Fellow

MacArthur Fellow Ibram X. Kendi is advancing conversations around anti-Black racism and possibilities for repair in a variety of initiatives and platforms. T...

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Mellon President Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) will receive an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from @UPenn alongside philanthropist @LaurenePowell Jobs, US Poet Laureate @JoyHarjo , and others:

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“The sharing of one’s interiority with others is poetry too.” Washington State #PoetLaureate @ClaudiaC_L on the relationship between #poetry , identity, and landscape. How can language connect us? #togetherapart #poetry @POETSorg

Claudia Castro Luna Maps Washington State Through Poetry

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We believe every person deserves access to the beauty, transcendence, and freedom of the #arts and #humanities . Learn how the Mellon Foundation is recommitting to our mission at . #SocialJustice #JustCommunities #UntoldStories

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Announcing the #LetrasBoricuas Fellowship—a new program supporting #writers and #poets in Puerto Rico and across the Puerto Rican diaspora made possible by Mellon and @FlamboyanFdn 's Arts Fund. Apply by June 20: #fellowships #grants #literature

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The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

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⁦Reading is a transformative, dignity-affirming act. “This is unlocking not just one world but dozens if not hundreds for people.” ⁦⁩ ⁦ @dwaynebetts with ⁦ @JCollaboratory ⁩ @NYTimes ⁦⁦ @YaleLawSch ⁩

With Books and New Focus, Mellon Foundation to Foster Social Equity (Published 2020)

The philanthropy’s new focus on programs that promote social justice will include a plan to provide book collections for 1,000 prisons.

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“The question before society, with even a partial transition to digital books, is: Do we want libraries to be the losers?”

Libraries Need More Freedom to Distribute Digital Books

But publishers are working hard to prevent that.

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“How do we consider the intrinsic value of an artist, and an artist’s practice, versus their impact on the world?”— @MellonFdn Program Director @emilkang asks @NatalieGDiaz , Bill T. Jones, @JenniferKoh1 & @likaluka : #Mellon50

Language, Performance, and Democracy (Clip 1)

Moderator Emil J. Kang, program director for Arts and Cultural Heritage at The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, asks panelists to consider the intrinsic value of...

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BREAKING: On Mon, 11/23, President @BarackObama will join @michele_norris & Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) on @PostLive for a conversation about his new memoir, his approach to writing & his literary influences:

A Washington Post Live Special: Barack Obama In Conversation With Michele Norris and Elizabeth...

Barack Obama has just released “A Promised Land,” the first volume of a memoir chronicling his presidency. On Monday, Nov. 23 the former president will sit down with Washington Post opinions column...

www.washingtonpost.com

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With a $15 million Mellon grant, @LibraryCongress will create new opportunities for historically underrepresented communities to participate in creating, sharing, and preserving a more inclusive American story for our nation’s public library:

Mellon Foundation

The Mellon Foundation makes grants to actively unlock the power in the arts and humanities that helps connect us all.

www.mellon.org

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. @MITPress to make landmark #architecture books freely accessible online through the Humanities Open Book project, an initiative of @NEHGov and @mellonfdn .

MIT Press to Make Landmark Architecture Books Freely Accessible Online

The MIT Press is set to make at least 25 landmark out-of-date architecture books freely accessible, including works about Frank Lloyd Wright and Alberti.

www.archdaily.com

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Congratulations Thelma Golden on being awarded the J. Paul Getty Medal for transforming the @studiomuseum into “one of our nation’s most dynamic visual arts institutions.” Read the museum's Case Study to learn more about its success

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"Don’t just look at who’s in the room and at the table, but ask who’s not in the room, not at the table."— @MellonFdn Pres. Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) in @Philanthropy on bringing #socialjustice to the fore:

Elizabeth Alexander on the Mellon Foundation’s New Direction

The group will ask: Does this grant contribute to a more fair and just society?

www.chronicle.com

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3 years

We are happy to announce that Maria Sachiko Cecire ( @mscecire ) will join the Foundation as program officer in #HigherLearning effective January 2021:

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“We continue to call on others to join us in supporting artists so they may continue to illuminate our path forward from this prolonged pandemic.”—Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) #Artists can apply for @ArtistReliefOrg grants through the end of 2020:

Coronavirus Relief Fund Raises Nearly $20 Million for Artists (Published 2020)

Creative professionals can receive $5,000 grants through the end of the year, thanks to additional funding by the Mellon Foundation and others.

www.nytimes.com

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Learn how a @UCLA community #archives program is helping communities reclaim the power to construct their own narratives while providing access to histories and voices that might otherwise be lost: #HigherEd #humanities

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Newly available from University of Pennsylvania Libraries ( @upennlib ): digital #archives of renowned Philadelphia native and contralto Marian Anderson: (via @hyperallergic ) #UntoldStories #History #PerformingArts #Libraries

See Newly Digitized, Public Archives on Recitalist Marian Anderson’s Life and Work

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries launched its publicly accessible archives of renowned contralto and Civil Rights activist Marian Anderson.

hyperallergic.com

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4 years

“If we believe in the pursuit of truth and justice, then we must seize every opportunity...to shift the telling, shift the focus, and in turn, shift the cultural narrative towards fuller histories.”—Pres. Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) at #Mellon50 :

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Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ), president of the @MellonFdn , being awarded the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal yesterday at @Harvard : (via @BostonGlobe )

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“I’m a historian not just because I like old things. It’s because I want to translate #history in order to improve the present and the future.”— @RutgersU Prof. & Mellon Mays alum @ericaadunbar #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenMakingHistory #IWD2020 #EachForEqual

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As we ready our national response to arts organizations devastated by coronavirus, @MellonFdn has joined a $75-million NYC COVID-19 Response & Impact Fund for small and mid-sized arts and cultural organizations, as well as social service providers: …

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Almost 850 Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellows have earned PhDs, enlivening #humanities scholarship and bolstering #diversity throughout America’s colleges and universities. Watch and learn more: #MMUF30 #HigherEd

Toward a More Inclusive Academy: MMUF at 30

A signature initiative of The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship (MMUF) program addresses the problem of underrepresentati...

www.youtube.com

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Some statistics suggest a measure of progress in #highered equity and access in recent decades, but the numbers don’t tell us all, say @GeorgiaStateU ’s Mark Becker & @PVAMU ’s Ruth J. Simmons: #Mellon50

The Possibilities and Challenges of Higher Learning Today, Clip 2

Some statistics suggest a measure of progress in higher education equity and access over the past several decades. Mark Becker, president of Georgia State U...

www.youtube.com

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3 years

“I’m a #historian not just because I like old things. It’s because I want to translate #history in order to improve the present and the future.” —Dr. @EricaADunbar #WomenMakingHistory #WomensHistoryMonth #MellonMays #MMUF

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“Freedom Is a strong seed Planted In a great need. “ —“Democracy” by #LangstonHughes (read by #AdrianMatejka ) More in our cross-generational series “Twenty Ten Twenty-Five,” celebrating #NationalPoetryMonth at 25: #TwentyTen25 @POETSorg @SindhaAgha

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How can communities whose voices are not represented in traditional library archives preserve their histories? Learn about our open call for grant proposals for community-based #archives projects across the US: (To be considered, apply by July 1.)

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The Schlesinger Library at @Harvard 's @RadInstitute reminds us that the fight for suffrage didn’t end when the 19th Amendment was ratified:

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If you’re part of a grassroots or community-based organization actively engaged in archiving past and present day histories, visit our website to learn how you can apply (by June 26) for grant funding for #communityarchives projects:

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Did you know Lucille Clifton’s home is becoming a sanctuary for artists in Baltimore? Learn more here in honor of #NationalPoetryMonth :

A Legendary Poet’s Home Becomes a Sanctuary for Young Artists

A From the Heart Productions, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.

www.mellon.org

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Today we mourn the passing of one of the world's greatest humanists, #ToniMorrison .

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. @Ava Duvernay’s @LeapAction project, proudly supported by @MellonFdn & others, aims to shift the narrative around individuals killed by police violence in the US: (via @WashingtonPost ) #SocialJustice #UntoldStories

Four police officers shot Amadou Diallo 19 times. A new photography project names them.

“No one was truly held accountable in the way that many feel should have been,” says LEAP founder Ava DuVernay.

www.washingtonpost.com

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JUST IN: Elizabeth Alexander ( @ProfessorEA ) honored with a National Magazine Award in the Essays and Criticism category for “The Trayvon Generation,” which appeared in the @NewYorker last year. Read it here: @ASME1963 #ellies

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. @MuseumDirectors has launched a paid internship program for students from underrepresented backgrounds.

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