Topic - The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

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Fisk University gets $500K grant for art gallery

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FILE - This undated photo shows Emmett Louis Till, a 14-year-old black Chicago boy, who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered in 1955 after he allegedly whistled at a white woman in Mississippi. A Republican and a Democratic senator say Congress should give the nation's highest civilian honor posthumously to Emmett Till and his mother, Mamie Till-Mobley. GOP Sen. Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Sen. Cory Booker, D-N.J., say the Congressional Gold Medal is long overdue for the Till family. (AP Photo, File)

Center receives grant for work preserving Emmett Till legacy

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Brown gets $5M grants to study historical injustices

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U of Michigan gets grants to study racial inequality

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FILE - In this Jan. 20, 2009, file photo, Elizabeth Alexander recites a poem during swearing-in ceremonies at the Capitol in Washington. Alexander is the president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which announced Monday, Oct. 5, 2020, it is spending $250 million on a five-year effort called the &quot;Monuments Project&quot; to reimagine monuments in public spaces. (AP Photo/Ron Edmonds, File)

Mellon launches $250M project to remake American monuments

By REBECCA SANTANA - Associated Press

Chicago museum to receive emergency grant during pandemic

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Arts organizations establish ‘Literary Arts Emergency Fund’

By HILLEL ITALIE - Associated Press

College works with community to fight food insecurity

By PATRICIA LeBOEUF - Associated Press

FILE - This file illustration provided by The College of William &amp; Mary shows a concept for a memorial the university plans to erect to people who were enslaved at the centuries-old school in Virginia. The university in Williamsburg said in a statement Wednesday, July 31, 2019, it has received a $1 million grant to help fund research into the legacy of slavery and racism at the school in Virginia as well as at the estate U.S. President James Monroe. (William Sendor/The College of William &amp; Mary via AP, File)

William & Mary gets $1M grant to research links to slavery

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FILE - In this Sept. 24, 2016 file photo Linda Johnson Rice, left, Chairman, Johnson Publishing Company, Inc., and Publisher of Ebony and Jet magazines, is joined by Kenneth Irvine Chenault, right, CEO and Chairman of American Express, at the dedication ceremony for the Smithsonian Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington. The new owners of the Ebony and Jet photo archive, Darren Walker as president of the Ford Foundation and Elizabeth Alexander, president of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, promised on Thursday, July 25, 2019, to donate the more than 4 million prints and negatives from the iconic black magazines to the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture and the Getty Research Institute. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

Ebony and Jet photo archive sale sparks relief, anxiety

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS and SALLY HO - Associated Press

Ebony and Jet images to be donated after photo archive sale

By SALLY HO and JESSE J. HOLLAND - Associated Press

Bennington College to get $1m grant to fight food insecurity

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