Grants

• Hampton University, the historically black educational institution in Virginia, received a $100,000 grant from the accounting firm Ernst & Young. The grant will be used for student scholarships and to enhance the technological assets of the university’s business school.

• Spelman College, the historically black educational institution for African-American women in Atlanta, received a $140,000 grant from the Arcus Foundation. The college will use the grant to archive the papers of Audre Lorde, one of the most influential African-American feminist writers of the twentieth century. The papers include poems, manuscripts, journal entries, letters, and essays. Lorde died in 1992 and left her papers to Spelman College but her estate requested that the collection remain closed until an authorized biography of Lorde was completed.

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