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What can you do to advance our shared mission? Support those working against racism.
Support Organizers and Policymakers Who Can Bring about Structural Change. Many people are calling for a new civil rights movement. But movements for justice don’t come out of nowhere. They must be built over the long haul. Movements require nurturing researchers who can point out the problem, supporting policy experts who can point to solutions, unleashing narratives that bring wide recognition to those problems and solutions, and leaders who can bring about structural change.
Support Fellowship and Community. The most foundational piece of movement infrastructure is relationships. These relationships are born of bringing together people who are working to confront racism and ensuring they fellowship together. Because fellowship leads to community, and community can power a movement for equality. To support the Institute is to lift up our programs that foster relationships: our Fellowship program, our community of journalists and experts at The Emancipator, the public gatherings at events like the National Antiracist Book Festival. While we can’t see relationships, we can see the change they can bring to our society.
Support Howard University Students. Many Howard University students are interested in careers that allow them to pursue racial equity and justice. Roughly 75 percent of Howard students work while enrolled in classes, and many work off-campus jobs unrelated to their career interests. With your support of the Institute, Howard students can receive paid, on-campus employment on our staff, which provides them with training, connections, and mentorship toward desired career paths in racial justice. We hire Howard students to work as research assistants, interns at The Emancipator, and administrative interns. Within our annual Fellowship Program, we pay Student Fellows, matching each Howard Fellow with a Howard student interested in pursuing similar work. This intentional connection ensures Howard students will work closely with leaders in their fields of interest. The Institute must not only engage in the advanced study of racism, but also to train the next generation of antiracist intellectuals, creators, and practitioners.
Support Innovation and Impact. The Institute for Advanced Study will be a library of ideas. Not just any ideas: we will foster the most innovative and impactful ideas to solve the old problems of racism. We invest in knowledge that isn’t produced for knowledge’s sake, but impact’s sake.
Support Intellectuals, Creators, and Practitioners. As opportunities for experts to develop and complete projects on race and racism decline, inequities and injustices have grown. We see greater need for our work: for leaders who will contribute to our expertise and amplify our voice. Supporting the Institute allows us to support more antiracist intellectuals, creators, and practitioners, which leads to more innovation and impact.
Support Non-Profit, Fact-Based, Independent, Antiracist Journalism. The Emancipator is the premier publication focused on uncovering racism and efforts to abolish it. We are named after the first anti-slavery newspaper, founded two centuries ago. A number of anti-slavery newspapers were founded in the 1820s when the “Slave Power” was surging on the heels of the propaganda of enslavers. A battle between journalists and propagandists emerged, with the journalists joining new anti-slavery newspapers since mainstream newspapers served as a platform for the propaganda of enslavers. We see the same situation emerging today. As racism surges, as journalists and propagandists battle over truth, the mainstream media offers a platform for racist propaganda. We need antiracist journalism like The Emancipator today as much as we needed anti-slavery newspapers two centuries ago. With your support, we can employ more editors, experts, correspondents, and contributors who deploy the power of truth-telling to support efforts to abolish racism.
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