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‘Haus’ of Art, Fashion — and Healing

by Denim Fisher April 30, 2025May 19, 2025

A campus institution that's more than a century old, the Victory Garden at Spelman College in Atlanta not only helps feed the college's neighbors, it's also reconnecting a new generation to the healing properties of working with the soil.

‘The Free-est Therapy’: Digging in the Dirt at Spelman College

by Denim Fisher April 9, 2025April 10, 2025

Ten years after Freddie Gray died in police custody, WombWork, a Maryland arts collective working in partnership with University of Maryland-Baltimore County's Choice Program, helped the community heal with an event, Arts Rysing. The event, held in March, featuring performances like dancers and drummers with Nu Generation,abo

Still Wounded From the Gray Uprising, Baltimore Heals With Art

by Mekhi Abbott April 1, 2025April 1, 2025

Chicago-based artist and MacArthur Fellow Amanda Williams' work will be featured in a Spelman College art exhibit, "We Say What Black This Is," designed to promote racial healing and introduce students to the world of fine art curation.

Art, Curation and Racial Healing at Spelman College

by Denim Fisher March 14, 2025March 18, 2025

The Shriver Center, housed in the University of Maryland-Baltimore County's Public Policy Building, is at the center of UMBC's Truth, Racial Healing and Reconciliation program, supported by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.

In Adopting Racial Healing, Shriver Center Embraces its Legacy

by Mekhi Abbott February 27, 2025March 5, 2025

Stanford Prof Adam Banks regularly flies 5 hours, one-way, to teach an African American studies class, and build community, in Cleveland, his hometown.

Bringing Black Studies to Black People

by Aaron Foley February 26, 2025February 26, 2025

A debilitating injury that ended her skating career - and a photograph taken in the 1960s — set Michelle Hanabusa on a path away from a corporate job to creating an art and fashion collective dedicated to fighting all forms of racism — and resurreting an allyship between Black and Asian communities.

Inspired by ’60s Asian-Black Solidarity, She Uses Design to Fight Racism

by Renata Sago October 3, 2024October 7, 2024

Having won reparatios for Japanese Americans in a landmark case, Donald Tamaki is appllying that wisdom as the only Asian American member of the California Reparations Task Force.

Why a Japanese American Lawyer Wants Reparations for Black Californians

by Renata Sago September 13, 2024September 17, 2024

The Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation campus centers provides a safe space for open, honest dialogue, practicing healing circles and finding ways to move past racial division.

Deconstruction Zones: Campus Racial Healing Program Expands

by Renata Sago August 29, 2024August 29, 2024