News

Congratulations to 2012 & 2015 BMRC Fellow Neil Clarke (and his son, Ayanda Clarke) on being installed as a chief in Osogbo, the capital city of Osun State in Nigeria.

Further congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Anita Mixon for being the recipient of the Distinguished Women Teacher’s Award and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Campus Award for Teaching Excellence Award, based on student nominations.

Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Carlos Javier Ortiz on receiving a Guggenheim Fellowship in Film / Video.

Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Amani Morrison who won first prize in the National Council for Black Studies 2016 Graduate Student Essay Contest, and also recently received University of California Berkeley’s Bancroft Library Study Award.

Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Katrina Greene Wood for her dissertation proposal and candidacy acceptance by the Art History Department at the University of Delaware.

BMRC Member Shorefront Legacy Center, alongside partners, will use the National Forum grant to host a series of meetings that will focus on integrating community archives in the National Digital Platform.

Congratulations to Williams, founder and director of the Bronzeville / Black Chicagoan Historical Society for being saluted and featured by the Millennium Reserve organization for her work highlighting the importance of preserving African-American history in Chicago.

Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Diane Jones Allen on being featured in the November 2015 issue of Landscape Architecture Magazine and for being asked to be a speaker at the Landscape Architecture 50th Anniversary Event.

The 2015 BMRC Fellow will apply the award to her project “No Longer 'Swept Under the Rug': A History of Gender, Sexuality, and Political Organizing at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, 1950s-1980s.”