Researching racial injustice 

Indiana Humanities has announced the 2024 Wilma Gibbs Moore fellowship recipients, who will each receive $5,000 to explore racial injustice issues in Indiana. The humanities-based research projects will examine anti-Black racial injustice and structural racism in Indiana. “Since we began this fellowship in 2020, many impressive fellows have been able to dive deeper into issues like political activism and environmental justice,” George Hanlin, director of grants at Indiana Humanities, said in a press release.The Wilma Gibbs Moore Fellowships are names for a librarian and former Indiana Historical Society archivist who was a preeminent scholar in Indiana for Black history. The program’s mission is to spark meaningful discussions and research about race in Indiana.The recipients were selected by an advisory panel of humanities scholars who reviewed each proposal thoroughly. These projects were the selected few: A team of archivists and historians at the Knox County Public Library, led by Bartholomew, will research the timeline of laws addressed towards the Black and people of color in the Northwest Territory, Indiana Territory and State of Indiana. The team will also explore the responses to the laws and the establishment, enforcement and evolution of the legal frameworks. Fellow: Renatto V. CarrCarr will study the...