Dianne Pinderhughes has been observing protests and marches for racial and social justice since her childhood in segregated Washington, D.C., where residents of the majority Black city didn’t have the right to vote in presidential elections until after passage of the Twenty-Third Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1961.

Christina Wolbrecht, a professor of political science and director of the Rooney Center for the Study of American Democracy, has been awarded a Centennial Center Special Projects Fund grant from the American Political Science Association.

This summer, as a renewed wave of protests for racial justice spread across the United States following the murder of George Floyd, Pam Blair, academic programs assistant at the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, began dreaming about ways to keep the conversation about race going once media attention to the movement for black lives receded.