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Anita Mixon receives teaching awards, joins Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities

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.

Carlos Javier Ortiz receives Guggenheim Fellowship

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

Amani Morrison wins National Council for Black Studies essay prize

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.

Katrina Greene Wood receives PhD candidacy acceptance

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.

Shorefront awarded National Leadership Grant for Libraries

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.

Sherry Williams featured by Millennium Reserve

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.