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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.
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.”
Burroughs, a 2012 BMRC Fellow, received the Medal of Honor for his contributions to the field of Illinois genealogy.
Congratulations to 2015 BMRC Fellow Kim Bobier for receiving a Helena Rubinstein Fellowship in Critical Studies for the 2015-16 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program.
Congratulations to BMRC Board Member Aaisha Haykal from Chicago State University Archives and Special Collections for accepting the Society of American Archivists Preservation Publication Award.
The Society recognized BMRC Board Member Dino Robinson alongside the Shorefront.