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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.”
-Dr. Alvin C. Hathaway, Sr., President and CEO
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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 [...]
35 Historic Black Churches Receive $4 Million Investment
For generations, historic Black churches have sat at the center of meaningful progress and reform in America. To honor and protect this legacy, the National Trust's African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund has invested $4 million in grants to 35 historic Black churches across the United States that represent the institution's impact on American society. The first round of the Preserving Black Churches grant program enables grantees not only to address real and urgent preservation threats [...]
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