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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is America’s largest supporter of the arts + humanities. We seek to build just communities where ideas + imagination can thrive.

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    Jul 12

    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 and the :

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  2. 23 minutes ago

    Interested in how you can take a page from these seniors and donate books to incarcerated readers in Georgia? Read on to find out:

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    Jul 28

    "The Latinx Artist Fellowships are backed by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation, and the first 15 fellows will each receive $50,000." Congrats to the recipients!

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  4. Jul 29

    ., a new documentary by Jamila Wignot that was funded in part by a , is a Critic's Pick. Read Gia Kourla's review here:

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  5. Jul 29

    Miss our event on commemorating today and for future generations? Watch the full video here:

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  6. Retweeted
    Jul 28

    Amistad is excited to announce a $500,000 award from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the Amistad/Rivers Artist Research Residency, launching Fall 2021 in New Orleans.

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    Jul 28

    The Fellowships in Urban Humanities “Landscapes of Civil & Human Rights” at are for scholars engaged in narratives and counternarratives of the legacy civil rights histories and their place-narratives in the US. Apply by Nov. 1st:

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  8. Jul 28

    Emmett Till would be 80 today. What would his life have been? An op-ed from Mellon President Elizabeth Alexander () in this week:

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  9. Jul 27

    To close tonight's event, Kevin Young () reads an excerpt from his poem "Money Road." Read it here:

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  10. Jul 27

    "What [the passage of] Juneteenth caused me to think about is not only how we can reflect on freedom...but also the delay of freedom."--Kevin Young ()

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  11. Jul 27

    Critical race theory "is an intellectual project that has political implications...of moving toward racial justice," explains Crystal N. Feimster (). "Anti-racist work is not anti-white work."

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  12. Jul 27

    "But how do we wrestle with the unanswered questions of our present?"-- Smithsonian Director Kevin Young ().

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  13. Jul 27

    "If we look 100 years ago, there was a pandemic. There was racial unrest. One of the things a museum is able to do is connect our past to our present," explains Smithsonian Director Kevin Young ().

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  14. Jul 27

    "There was a strategy at play when Mamie Till-Bradley decided to only invite the Black press to her son's funeral--rather than having the White press make more pornography of Black death," explains Crystal N. Feimster ()

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  15. Jul 27

    "Witnessing something is not just seeing something...you have to say something," Kevin Young () explains, referencing Mamie Till-Mobley (1955) and Darnella Frazier (2020)

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  16. Jul 27

    "We can identify as part of a long history of Black boys and men being brutalized...but also a chain of Black mothers."--Crystal N. Feimster ()

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  17. Jul 27

    Fact: the only object that may not be photographed at the Smithsonian is the casket of .

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  18. Jul 27

    Crystal N. Feimster () speaks about the "resilience, joy, beauty of claiming a Black South that people would not have us claim."

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  19. Jul 27

    "I cannot help but think about all of the Black kids who have gone back [to visit relatives in the South]. It is a story of migration...the South was family"--Crystal N. Feimster ()

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  20. Jul 27

    "Do you remember when you first heard the story of and how it affected you?," Elizabeth Alexander () asks tonight's speakers: Crystal N. Feimster () + Kevin Young ()

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  21. Jul 27

    "By choosing to share her son's story, Mamie Till-Mobley became a history maker and history keeper--like the loved ones of so many who continue to be murdered today."--Elizabeth Alexander ()

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