UCLA Receives $3.65M Grant for “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration” Initiative

Kelly Lytle Hernandez and Marques Vestal (history PhD alum and incoming assistant professor in urban planning at UCLA) are part of a team that has been awarded a $3.65M grant from the Mellon Foundation. Million Dollar Hoods and the UCLA ethnic studies centers are launching a new initiative, “Archiving the Age of Mass Incarceration,” which includes preserving records from the age of mass incarceration in Los Angeles and building a new digital platform for racial and social justice scholarship at UCLA. Additional project leads joining them are professors Shannon Speed, Karen Umemoto, and Chon Noriega.

More information on the project is contained in the articles below:

• https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-01-28/ucla-wins-3-65m-grant-to-archive-lapd-trove-document-age-of-incarceration
• https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/mellon-foundation-ucla-archive-policing-incarceration
• https://mynewsla.com/crime/2021/01/28/ucla-mellon-grant-to-establish-arc…
• https://news.yahoo.com/ucla-wins-3-65-million-145327670.html
• https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/age-mass-incarceration-ucl…
• https://lasentinel.net/ucla-mellon-grant-to-establish-archive-about-mass…
• https://fb.watch/3BgAhR-kOH/
• https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/28/ucla-is-building-a-digital-archive-of-…