Tanya Aguiñiga, Amalia Mesa-Bains, and Vincent Valdez are among the recipients of this year’s grants, funded by the Ford and Mellon Foundations.
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Docs About Jamaica Kincaid, Confederate Monuments, Repatriation and More Receive Over $20M from Ford Foundation
In the past year, 122 organizations and filmmakers received funding from JustFilms for projects that are expanding the realm of perspectives from which stories are told.
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A $6M Program Will Support POC-led Arts Organizations in the South
Eligible arts organizations can apply for funding provided by the Ford Foundation and Atlanta-based nonprofit South Arts.
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Ford Foundation Invests $50M in the Power That Art and Narrative Can Change Ideas
Several members of the 2021 cohort identify as artists and storytellers, utilizing the power that art and narrative have on changing ideas of power.
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$5M Grant Will Extend Disability Futures Initiative Through 2025
The inaugural Disability Futures Fellows include Carolyn Lazard, Christine Sun Kim, and Tourmaline.
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The Dire Need for a Decentralized News Media
Moving toward smaller-scale organizations would help engage younger audiences left out by the companies that preside over 90% of what’s on-air and online.
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How Journalists Can Use Their Reporting to Support Marginalized People
Disability rights activist Emily Ladau explains “supported storytelling.”
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We Need New Institutions, Not New Art
Coco Fusco writes on why “equity won’t be achieved by a new biennial, another emerging artist of color survey, or a record auction sale by a Black artist.”
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Critics of Color Can Apply for a New $500 COVID-19 Grant
The unrestricted funds will be released by granting initiative Critical Minded and sponsored by Allied Media Projects.
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“If They Build It, They Will Fill It”: Prison Abolitionists Protest Outside the Ford Foundation
Over 50 protestors gathered outside the Ford Foundation’s Manhattan headquarters, responding to the foundation president’s statements in support of New York City’s plan to close Rikers Island prison complex and build smaller detention facilities in its place.
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As Protest Gears Up, Over 100 Ford Fellows Criticize Ford Foundation President’s Support of Prisons to Replace Rikers [UPDATED]
In the open letter, they write, “The evidence is clear, more jails – no matter how ‘humane’ – lead to higher rates of incarceration, perpetuate the disruption of families (especially in communities of color), and are harmful to human health.”
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An Essential History Immortalized in the Archive of Ebony and Jet
The archive of Ebony and Jet is a treasure trove of visual culture; its donation to the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Getty Research Institute will allow unprecedented access to decades of Black American history.