Topic: Race & Social Justice

The origins and legacy of a research project conducted in the American concentration camps for Japanese Americans.

Working to change US medical education was one of the Rockefeller Foundation’s biggest endeavors in the 1910s and 1920s, extending from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore to Beijing, China.

One philanthropist’s interest in reforming prostitution created a scientific organization focused on connecting sex and crime.

A massive program in nursing education extended to 53 schools across the globe. But it never became a top priority of the foundation that supported it.

In the early 20th century, the General Education Board was devoted to the cause of improving education throughout the United States, without distinction of race, sex, or creed.

A foundation-supported publication challenged McCarthyism and caused a controversy.

Prompted by Reagan-era budget cuts, a new program serving low-income single parents receiving public aid failed to meet its constituents’ needs.

Delving into a century of philanthropic engagement with race, from Reconstruction to the Civil Rights era.

Against a backdrop of white, establishment concepts of literary excellence, one foundation struggled to appreciate Black voices.

A story recounting many accusations, from rigged elections to the meddling of big private money in grassroots organizing.