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The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded the University a $5 million grant to address racial justice and create more just and equitable futures for all across Minnesota through public humanities. 

U of M professor Samuel Myers talks about tangible ways to reduce racial inequities in Minnesota.

Jeff Simpson, professor and chair of the Department of Psychology in the College of Liberal Arts, co-authored the study.

For decades, black citizens in Minneapolis were systematically denied equal rights to homeownership.

It’s easy for fashion to fall under the spell of stereotype: that it is the exclusive domain of models, celebrities, the wealthy, and then the rest of us. That it involves runways, posing, and flashing bulbs. It does. But it is also much more than that.

The study was led by Claire Segijn, an assistant professor in the Hubbard School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

U of M Twin Cities junior Dustin Morrow was named among 55 Udall Scholars for 2020.