Philanthropy for Literature and Jazz
Elizabeth Alexander, president of The Mellon Foundation, poet, educator, memoirist and scholar and the author of The Trayvon Generation (Grand Central Publishing, 2022) (https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elizabeth-alexander/the-trayvon-generation/9781538737903/?lens=grand-central-publishing) , talks about the Mellon Foundation's new grants and funding for literary arts and jazz musicians, and why money for the…