Some of the most widespread sources of information on the planet, Wikipedia’s articles are praised for their neutrality, but show significant biases in whom they cover. Rackham political science student Samuel Baltz spent most of 2020 working to change that by writing an article on women in political science every day.

Tribal radio stations are important sources of healthcare information in Native American communities. With support from the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship and Rackham summer research funding, Ph.D. alumna Jana Wilbricht studied this crucial role, and helped two stations better reach their audiences.

A partnership between U-M and the Ann Arbor branch of the NAACP, U-M’s inaugural Juneteenth Symposium hopes to bring together the U-M and Ann Arbor communities virtually to celebrate and recognize the liberation of all Black people from slavery and seeks to collaborate, enrich, and empower the community in a longstanding annual tradition to promote Black liberation and excellence.

With support from the Rackham Program in Public Scholarship, anthropology alumnus Colin Quinn helped start a program that connects a Romanian community with its mining heritage.