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“By standing on the shoulders of our ancestors and enjoying borrowed blessing we now, humbly, have the opportunity to give back and pay it forward at the same time.”
-Rev. Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Jr., Executive Director
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Brown Capital Management and State of Maryland Commit $2.25 Million to Nation’s First African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative
The nation’s first African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) announced today $2.25 million in startup funding from the investment management firm Brown Capital Management (BCM) and the State of Maryland. The goals of the AANRI are to close the gap in brain research that has consistently underrepresented African Americans and to create the most comprehensive African-ancestry, brain-genomic dataset in the world, with the ultimate goal to develop new therapeutics and prevention strategies for brain disorders. In [...]
LIEBER INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN DEVELOPMENT RECEIVES $1 MILLION FROM CHAN ZUCKERBERG INITIATIVE TO FOSTER DIVERSITY IN NEUROSCIENCE
The Lieber Institute for Brain Development has received a $1 million, two-year grant from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative to support the work of the African Ancestry Neuroscience Research Initiative (AANRI) to promote racial equity throughout the field of neuroscience. AANRI began in 2019 as a collaboration between African American community leaders in Baltimore, the Lieber Institute for Brain Development—located on the Johns Hopkins medical campus in Baltimore—and Morgan State University, a public historically Black university in [...]
Pastor Believes Transformation of P.S. 103 Can Revitalize Old West Baltimore
Politics, not the office kind, cost Alvin Hathaway his first two jobs. The first, a computer programming gig for the B&O Railroad, was done in by the 1970 Clean Air Act (think fewer coal trains). The second, as a community court liaison for Milton Allen, the city’s first Black state’s attorney, got cut after William Swisher, a white candidate running a racially charged campaign, defeated Allen in his re-election bid. “I was in my mid-20s, feeling [...]
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