Under the leadership of Professor Caty Borum Chattoo, the Center for Media and Social Impact has received significant funding for initiatives at CMSI's core intersection of creative culture, entertainment, and social justice and equity. “The resources provided by these grants makes it possible for CMSI’s work, which is critical within SOC, to continue and to expand at a moment in our national history when it is desperately needed.” -Sam Fulwood III, dean of the AU School of Communication

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Orisanmi Burton, assistant professor of anthropology at American University, is one of six recipients of the Freedom Scholars Awards.

“I’m deeply honored to receive this award, which will put me in a great position to sustain my work over the long term. What Cedric Robinson and my esteemed co-Freedom Scholar, Robin D.G. Kelley, have called “The Black radical tradition” is an archive, a library of largely unknown knowledge. The research I’ve been doing is collecting, organizing and interpreting this extensive archive.” - Professor Orisanmi Burton

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