{"id":13090,"date":"2022-02-17T23:33:41","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/new-fund-alert-open-society-foundations-supports-sustainability-for-black-artists-activists\/"},"modified":"2022-02-17T23:33:41","modified_gmt":"2022-02-17T23:33:41","slug":"new-fund-alert-open-society-foundations-supports-sustainability-for-black-artists-activists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uaaglobal.com\/new-fund-alert-open-society-foundations-supports-sustainability-for-black-artists-activists\/","title":{"rendered":"New Fund Alert! 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Two notable artists\/activists selected as award recipients are Monica Raye Simpson \u2014 a Black, Southern, lesbian, artist\/organizer and executive director of SisterSong \u2014 and Prentiss Haney \u2014 co-founder of Midwest Culture Lab as an urgent political intervention needed to center and support young artists of color as trusted communicators, organizers, and cultural strategists with the intent of increasing youth civic participation during elections.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2022\/02\/04\/open-society-foundations-activists-grants\/\">Justice Rising Awards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.opensocietyjusticerising.org\/\">the awardees.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><!-- \/.mccoppin --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Nadia Elokdah on February 17, 2022 &#8220;The Open Society Foundations are proud to announce their Justice Rising Awards, a new investment in leaders working towards racial justice and equality in the Black community in the United States,&#8221; according to the press release. &#8220;The 16 awardees from across the country are being recognized for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-call-for-artists"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New Fund Alert! 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