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The Liberating Promise of Philanthropy: Stories of Grant-Makers in the South Martin Lehfeldt, former president of the Southeastern Council of Foundations, and co-author Jamil Zainaldin, president [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Between 1917 and 1932, some 5,000 lovingly designed and constructed Rosenwald Schools were built for rural African American children throughout the South [see “Bearing [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin By 1917 the Reconstruction that was to have secured freedom and equal opportunity for 4.5 million former slaves in the South had vanished. In its place was the vision of a “New [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Life, if we let it, can become a pressure cooker. We never seem satisfied by what we have or where we’ve gotten. There’s one more rung on the ladder to climb, one more [...]

By Jamil Zainaldin Love, honor, beauty, betrayal, duty. We know these as essences of life. They are also at the heart of the stories told in the poetry and plays of the great, late August Wilson [...]