Kali-Ahset Amen 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 African American history, culture and arts. The project, “Inheritance Baltimore: Humanities and Arts Education for Black Liberation,” will pioneer methods of teaching, research, preservation, and doctoral education that works with Black institutions to foreground the experiences of Baltimore’s Black community and combat institutional racism. The project will also document and preserve the ways African Americans attained knowledge within and outside of academic disciplines.