Mellon Foundation awards $4 million grant to Inheritance Baltimore project The project will pioneer new methods of instruction, research, and archival preservation that bring the history of the Black Baltimoreans to the fore By Doug Donovan / Published Jan 14, 2021 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation on Wednesday awarded a $4.4 million grant to a team of scholars at Johns Hopkins University that is investigating the history of academic racism in higher education and building a citywide network to preserve Baltimore's Black history, culture, and arts. The project, Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation, will pioneer methods of instruction, research, preservation, and doctoral education that works with Black institutions to bring the experiences of Baltimore's Black community to the fore and combat institutional racism. The project will also document and preserve the ways Black people attained knowledge within and outside of academic disciplines.