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Environmental studies + urban ag at University of San Francisco; The farm at Black Mountain College; seed libraries + food pantries
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@nehgov.bsky.social announced new awards today from their March Council meeting. Let's compare with awards from prior years, shall we? This year (2025), NEH funded $9.55 Million for 68 Humanities Projects. In 2024: $26.2 Million for 238 Projects. In 2023: $35.63 Million for 258 Projects. +

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“Black Press USA has learned that Trump officials are sending back exhibit items to their rightful owners and dismantling them—starting with the 1960 Woolworth’s lunch counter sit-in exhibit.” blackpressusa.com/the-smithson...

submitted 19 days ago • 113 comments

The Michigan Humanities Council lost 90% of its operating budget overnight. Every NEH grant and fellowship in my college has been terminated (including my own). And as devastated as I am by that, the treatment that the amazing NEH employees are receiving is so much worse. They do not deserve this.

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of course people won’t need history when the machine god takes its rightful place as humanity’s ruler

submitted 40 days ago • 50 comments

We’re about to see higher education go to bed w/ right-wing politics or vegetate in the least inspiring & most conformist ways. This book, abt the lesser-known students of the Black Mountain College and its radical sustenance experiment, looks like a salve. atelier-editions.com/products/the...

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Community Garden Outreach class in the USF Zine Library

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I have essentially borrowed about half of @gleesonlibrary.bsky.social, especially their collections the Beats, North Beach, the San Francisco Renaissance, and Berkeley Renaissance. #BMCinSF #libraries #blackmountaincollege

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Two great #BMCinSF finds from @berkeleypublibrary.bsky.social

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Free fibrary, Berkeley

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#masterpiece

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Last night’s book talk at @citylightsbooks.bsky.social #blackmountaincollege

submitted 147 days ago • 1 comment

A new book traces the rise and fall of a little-known farm at Black Mountain College, which fueled creative experimentation and attracted artists like Willem de Kooning and Merce Cunningham.

submitted 161 days ago • 2 comments