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Supporting just communities, creative expression, critical thinking, and the visionaries who connect us all. 🎨 🎠📖
New York, NY
Joined October 2015
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Please visit https://t.co/jNXmkzvOFE to subscribe to Mellon News, a biweekly newsletter featuring announcements, upcoming events, and more from Mellon and our grantees.
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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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Artists nourish our economies, communities, and collective spirit. Explore “Artists as Catalysts” at Mellon. https://t.co/iKaJaV3mxB
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Is making art essential work?
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Places can invite opportunities to uncover the past in ways that challenge and unite us. Explore “Public Places‚ Public Stories” at Mellon.
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Can public sites open community understanding and connection?
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“I viewed the fellowship as laying an imaginary literary net.”
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The Letras Boricuas Fellowship provided me with an income to aid me financially, while betting on the continuation of a literary work that was just beginning to break the harsh silence of exile.
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A century-old landscape garden in DC is changing our understanding of the history of place.
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A Harvard University grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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At Mellon, we believe in the power of many voices and many discourses. Explore “Multivocality.”
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How do we expand our “we”?
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"The Philadelphia rowhouse once owned by the jazz musician will be restored through funds provided by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation."
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The Philadelphia rowhouse once owned by the jazz musician will be restored through funds provided by the African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
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Lucille Clifton’s children have reclaimed the century-old Baltimore house where their mother wrote some of her greatest work.
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A From the Heart Productions, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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Join us on 3/19 as Mellon Foundation President Elizabeth Alexander speaks with journalist Michele Norris about Norris’s new book, “Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity.” Register for the free, virtual Mellon event: https://t.co/hE2vkKCUxk
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The Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative invests in jailhouse lawyers—incarcerated justice advocates—as a core strategy for ending the cycle of incarceration.
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A New York University grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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“We're doing this work because we want to live and we want to live well and enjoy life with the people that we love.” – Nse Ufot, CEO of The New Georgia Project
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Wideman Davis Dance Company is creating residencies in cities across the South that involve local communities and engage live audiences in intimate antebellum histories told through dance.
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A Wideman-Davis Dance of New York, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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The JXN Project is helping tell the story of the nation’s first vibrant, urban neighborhood founded by Black Americans, Jackson Ward.
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A The JXN Project grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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The “Afro-American” is the only publication of its kind owned by the same family for its entire history and is the oldest Black-owned business in Maryland.
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A Afro Charities, Inc. grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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What can you do with a PhD? Meet a news editor, museum president, community organizer, and others making waves with their doctorate degree.
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From a CNN senior editor to a museum president, meet seven professionals making waves in the world who say they’ve succeeded thanks to their advanced humanities degrees.
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“We're doing this work because we want to live and we want to live well and enjoy life with the people that we love.” – Nse Ufot, CEO of The New Georgia Project
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RaceB4Race brings together scholars of color across disciplines and institutions to examine issues of structural racism in premodern history, literature, and culture.
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The Mellon Foundation is pleased to announce the election of Dr. Paul Farber, curator, historian, educator and director of Monument Lab, to our Board of Trustees. https://t.co/cOIswclp2k
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The Jailhouse Lawyer Initiative invests in jailhouse lawyers—incarcerated justice advocates—as a core strategy for ending the cycle of incarceration.
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A New York University grant story from the Mellon Foundation.
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