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For continued support of Paul Robeson House & Museum's work to maintain the Paul Robeson's archives and use the space as training tool for the community, educational institutions, and other organizations.

To support the production and impact production of "Eso No Tiene Nombre," a one-woman show celebrating the oral history of Latina lesbian elders.

To follow up on the success of the “Images in Quarantine” issue of Motivos magazine and highlight the amazing photography produced by students as the country is emerging from the COVID-19 quarantine.

To encourage intergenerational storytelling to amplify the refugee and immigrant Cambodian & Southeast Asian American community, as well as to archive the community’s history and immigration story.

To record, archive, and amplify the stories of everyday sex workers of color and sex workers of color leaders navigating life through and after COVID-19.

To build community narrative power rooted in a cooperative nonprofit community bookstore and social center movement space. This project will feature an open access library, archive, and reading room; a year-long oral history and lecture series around Philadelphia’s Black Radical Tradition; political education around media systems and community media literacies around policing, housing, education, care, and food issues; and community-based media content creation licensed under creative commons for community use.

To support Educators to Africa in producing a short film about its history, accomplishments and mission in Philadelphia schools.

For the “Philadelphia Archival Creators Fellowship” which will support three fellows in Philadelphia to document and share the stories of three distinct South Asian American populations: Bhutanese refugees in South Philadelphia, working-class Bangladeshi immigrants in West Philadelphia, and second and third generation Malayalee (from Kerala, India) Christian community members in Northeast Philadelphia.

To increase the visibility and understanding of the diverse Asian American communities in Philadelphia and their strengths, challenges and histories through a yearlong feature series of journalistic work about post-COVID reopening which would be sourced from grassroots networks and community leaders.

To document the lived experiences, hopes, concerns, needs, and overall cultural perspectives of representatives from the Philadelphia drag and queer arts community.