The post focuses on the February 2023 culminating celebration of the cultural documentation project, Community on the Line: The Culture of Urban Soul Line Dancing in the Philadelphia, New Jersey and Delaware Tri-State Area, led by Karen Abdul-Malik and supported by the American Folklife Center Community Collections Grants Program.
We regularly feature the interns whose hard work positively impacts the Library. Today’s interview is with a 2022 participant in the Archives, History and Heritage Advanced (AHHA) internship program, Amira Walker. Describe your background Hello, I’m Amira! I grew up in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex and currently live in Irving, Texas. I will soon …
This is a guest post by Diana Gibbs, program manager for the AHHA Internship Program. Diana has previously posted about AHHA in the Blog Post Round-Up: 2021 AHHA Interns and Blog Round-up: AHHA Fall 2021. Applications are open today, March 20 through Monday, April 24, 2023 for the 2023 session of the Archives, History and …
An announcement of the project team, Remembering Black Dallas, receiving a 2023 American Folklife Center Community Collections Grant for their project, If Tenth Street Could Talk.