Heart of Los Angeles Youth, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $40,000
Planning to design three temporary exhibitions with public programs examining the history of Lafayette Park in Los Angeles.
Bears Ears: Living Land
Los Angeles, CA
Award: Outright; $75,000
Development of a temporary and traveling exhibition on the history and culture of tribes of the Bears Ears region in southeaster Utah.
Updating the Amache Interpretation Plan: Reframing Interpretation at a WWII Japanese Incarceration Site
Sonoma State University
Award: Outright; $40,000
Development of a master interpretive plan for exhibitions, site interpretation, and public programs for the Granada Relocation Center National Historic Landmark, known as Amache, and the Amache Museum.
Black Public Media grants US$410K to doc teams at PitchBLACK Awards Five teams competing at Black Public Media’s (BPM) PitchBLACK Forum were granted a total of US$410,000 to fund their productions at the annual PitchBLACK Awards, held April 9.
This marks the . April 16, 2021
Five teams competing at Black Public Media’s (BPM) PitchBLACK Forum were granted a total of US$410,000 to fund their productions at the annual PitchBLACK Awards, held April 9.
This marks the fourth edition of BPM’s 360 Incubator+ fellowship, a professional development program designed to help bring quality Black content to market. The event was hosted by BPM executive director Leslie Fields-Cruz and keynoted by noted producer Colin “Topper” Carew.
How Maya Wiley Would Run New York
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HOWARD WOLFSON: Maya Wiley, welcome. I thought we d start at the beginning. Tell us a little bit about your background and why you re running for mayor.
MAYA WILEY: I am a Black woman raised by parents who were active in the civil-rights movement. My father was at the forefront of the economic justice movement â fighting for and with Black women who were on welfare for dignity and for enough support to feed their families, shelter their kids. Having grown up in a Black neighborhood, gone to a segregated Black public school that was overcrowded and underfunded, watched my neighbors be displaced when rents went up and they couldn t afford to pay them â all this shaped my career.
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Natalie Foster is the cofounder of the Economic Security Project, a network dedicated to advancing a guaranteed income in America.
She says in the wake of COVID-19, economic resilience can be part of our reality through guaranteed income.
Guaranteed income is a robust response to so many contradictions.
We see the benefits of divorcing work from worth playing out in Stockton, California. Mayor Michael Tubbs, the first Black mayor elected to office at the ripe age of 26, is running a guaranteed income pilot. He makes the case that poverty comes from a lack of cash, not a lack of character.