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June 6, 2022
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Grant to support Brown-led global oral history project on slavery’s legacy
With support from a $1.25 million grant from the Abrams Foundation, scholars at Brown are working with partners to collect personal stories that reveal how slavery and colonialism shaped societies across the globe.
May 24, 2022
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Brown adopts land acknowledgment, additional commitments to Native and Indigenous communities
The acknowledgment is part of a set of commitments aimed at building a better understanding of the relationship between the University community, Indigenous peoples of the region and the land on which Brown is situated.
November 12, 2021
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Scholars, leaders reflect on Brown’s transformative Slavery and Justice Report
University leaders, faculty, alumni and students gathered on Friday, Nov. 12, to celebrate a new second edition of the report, discuss the original report’s legacy and debate what work remains at Brown and beyond.
November 8, 2021
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Brown Library, HBCU Library Alliance awarded grant to create library leadership program
With a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, Brown’s library will partner with the HBCU Library Alliance and its member institutions to help library professionals become culturally sensitive, socially conscious leaders.
July 15, 2021
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For second consecutive year, First Readings will examine Brown’s historical ties to the slave trade
Incoming undergraduates in the Class of 2025 will read a digitized version of the pioneering Slavery and Justice Report, the selected text for the First Readings program for the second year.
April 1, 2021
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Phase II of Brown’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan to focus on equity, inclusion
In launching Phase II of its ambitious action plan, Brown assessed progress to date, reaffirmed the essential role of diversity and inclusion to academic excellence, and outlined new actions toward a more fully equitable community.
February 2, 2021
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$4.9 million grant project to interrogate legacy of colonialism, subjugation in New England
Brown University, Williams College and the Mystic Seaport Museum scholars will use maritime history as a basis for studying the relationship between European colonization, dispossession of Native American land and racial slavery.
November 16, 2020
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Brown is first non-HBCU invited to join national HBCU Library Alliance
The University is the newest member of a nationwide alliance dedicated to preserving and advancing the scholarly and institutional library collections of historically Black colleges and universities.
October 16, 2020
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First Readings to focus on historical ties, present-day legacies of slavery
Students in Brown’s undergraduate Class of 2024 will read a digitized version of the pioneering “Slavery and Justice Report,” the selected text for this year’s First Readings program.
October 8, 2020
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In Indigenous art course, students learn by curating
Students in the remote course Indigenous Art, Issues and Concepts, taught by visiting instructor Marina Tyquiengco, will cap off the fall semester by creating their own Indigenous art exhibitions.
August 31, 2020
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With COVID-19 archives, Brown students, faculty and staff aim to diversify the historical record
In the midst of the first global pandemic of the digital age, historians and archivists, both at Brown and across the globe, have launched countless efforts to record history in the making.
June 29, 2020
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Slavery and Justice researcher’s new book chronicles 19th century slavery and empire
“Trouble of the World,” by visiting faculty member Zach Sell of Brown University, demonstrates that American slavery transformed labor and production practices around the world, even in places where slavery was abolished.