Posts in ' BIPOC Stories'

$40,000 - Awarded July 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
West Philadelphia Cultural Alliance
Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
Description
To support the Paul Robeson House's ongoing archival development, digitization, and community programming and collaborative public engagement activities that expand access to and care for community-based archival collections.

$50,000 - Awarded July 2026

Grantees
FreePress
Focus areas
Community-Centered Journalism
Immigrant Voices
Media Training
BIPOC Stories
Description
To provide support for Free Press' "Philly Comunicadores Initiative," which builds collective power among Spanish-speaking media workers and journalists in the Delaway Valley region by facilitating a collaborative group that provides culturally competent training and resources in Spanish on a variety of journalism and media issues.

$25,000 - Awarded July 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Communitas Arts + Culture
Focus areas
Archives
BIPOC Stories
LGBTQIA+
Podcast and Audio Storytelling
Description
For continued support of Drag Arts Oral History Project, an archive of oral histories of Philadelphia area drag artists, and activating the existing archive through new multimedia-focused efforts.

$30,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Zainab Sultan
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Description

The documentary "Mic Check Democracy" follows Delaware State Representative Madinah Wilson-Anton as she navigates fierce opposition while challenging political norms in a deeply divided America.

$25,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Xenia Matthews
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Film
Description

In "MAMABABY," a Florida girl’s herbal abortion opens a portal, sinking her and her mama into a still-water spirit swamp where they wade through memories and future visions, allowing them to love each other more honestly on the surface.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Shuja Moore
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
"Common Ground" is a documentary about a formerly incarcerated filmmaker who works to revive a deteriorating playground and sustain a community garden in West Philadelphia while the neighborhood gentrifies around him.

$30,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Rea Tajiri
Focus areas
BIPOC Stories
Immigrant Voices
Film
Description

In "Non-Alien," Vince Tajiri, an unemployed Nikkei photographer, wanders the streets of 1945 Chicago, searching for community through his camera's viewfinder. At the beach, he stumbles into a bardo outside of time; he encounters Paul Robeson, Hisaye Yamamoto, and Sun Ra, fellow artists dreaming of passage into alternative futures, as well as his three children, apparitions from worlds yet-to-be.

$20,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Raishad Momar
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Description
Set in a tiny African-American town in Georgia, "Woodland" is an experimental documentary that tells the story of a grandmother’s struggle with Alzheimer’s and how it mirrors the quiet unraveling of her once-thriving Black community.

$10,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Mugo Muna
Focus areas
Film
BIPOC Stories
Policing and Community Safety
Description
"The Price of Freedom" shares Shalanda’s trying experience of being shot, mistakenly arrested, and her subsequent trials with rushed medical treatment, navigating the criminal justice system, quarantine, and incarceration, all due to her financial situation.

$25,000 - Awarded April 2026

Community Storytelling
Grantees
Jess X. Snow
Focus areas
Film
Immigrant Voices
BIPOC Stories
LGBTQIA+
Description
"Yellow Pearl" tells the story of Helen, a timid Chinese American PhD student, who encounters the ghost of a vengeful immigrant woman from the Chinese Exclusion Era, and is drawn into a sexual and political awakening that forces her to choose between old loyalties and burgeoning queer desire.

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