Dr. Chuck Jackson Awarded $20K NEH Grant

University of Houston Downtown News

Since 1965, the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded billions of dollars in grants to high-quality, high-impact humanities projects that will promote excellence, wisdom, and the “lessons of history to all Americans.” Now, our own Dr. Chuck Jackson joins the prestigious group of awardees, as he earned a NEH grant to research the films of Jessie Maple, a Black American filmmaker who was one of the first to write, direct, and produce a feature-length film, “Will” (1981). He plans to research and write an article on her three early films that illuminate her cinematography and 1970s Harlem. Dr. Jackson’s project, titled “Jessie Maple’s Early Films: Moody Close-Ups on Harlem, 1975–81,” was awarded $20,000.  

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