The White House has announced a star-studded slate of members for the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, a panel of artists, museum professionals, academics and philanthropists that serves as an advisory board to President Joe Biden on culture issues.

An English professor and folklorist at a historically Black private university in New Orleans will become Louisiana's poet laureate on Saturday.

ANN ARBOR – The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation’s Just Futures Initiative has awarded the University of Michigan two $5 million grants. Led by professors Stephanie Fryberg and Earl Lewis, the grant money will be used over the next three years to fund projects that address racial inequity. Fryberg is a professor of psychology and a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor. Lewis is the Thomas C. Holt Distinguished University Professor of History, Afroamerican and African Studies and Public Policy. In total, the Mellon Foundation awarded more then $72 million in grant funding for 16 arts, humanities and social sciences projects across the U.S.

"Illegal Entry" by Ruth Leonela Buentello (acrylic on canvas) will be featured in "Yo Tengo Nombre" [I Have a Name], an exhibition presented by the University of Michigan Institute for the Humanities Sept. 19Oct. ANN ARBOR - A new installation coming to the University of Michigan's Institute for the Humanities depicts the detainment and separation of migrant families at the U.S.-Mexico border. The paintings -- titled "Yo Tengo Nombre [I Have a Name]" -- will be on view from Sept. 19 through Oct. 31. The works are part of the "Zero Tolerance" series by artist Ruth Leonela Buentello, inspired by the aftermath of the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy that garnered extensive media attention. The free gallery is open to the public on weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.All About Ann Arbor is powered by ClickOnDetroit/WDIV.