In 2016, former NCCU professor Lenora Helm Hammonds developed the curriculum and laid the groundwork for North Carolina Central University’s Teaching Artist Certificate Program (TACP).
In 2017, former Associate Professor Lenora Helm Hammonds was selected as a John Hope Franklin Digital Humanities Fellow in the second cohort of the NCCU-Duke University partnership.
In 2019, the Samuel DuBois Cook Center on Social Equity at Duke University received a grant from JP Morgan to construct a permanent exhibit centered around