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  • Are These Bastards Going After the Arts Again? White House Budget Cuts Target NEA, CPB, AmeriCorps

    Editor’s note: The original post for this story made mention of Sesame Street in relation to the pending White House budget cuts. HBO now funds Sesame Street. The White House budget office has reportedly drafted a list of American programs that President Donald Trump could cut to put a dent in domestic spending, including the…

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    Angela Helm

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  • Watch: Black Power and Creative Expression

    The video below was published in partnership with Peabody Spotlight, a digital series produced by the Peabody Media Center at the University of Georgia in commemoration of Black History Month. Each part of the series draws from the vast Peabody Awards archives, the third-largest repository of audiovisual materials in the United States. Peabody Spotlight will…

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    Danielle Young

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  • Henry Louis Gates Jr. on 50 Years of Black Progress and the Perils That Still Exist

    “I now know what Frederick Douglass felt like in 1876 when Reconstruction came to an end,” says Henry Louis Gates Jr., referring to the recent election and the end of the Obama presidency. He continues, “This clearly for some people is the end of the Second Reconstruction.” The renowned professor and documentarian (and chairman of…

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    Felice León

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