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An Important Honor for Joy Harjo and “Living Nations, Living Words”
The following is a guest post by our colleague Rob Casper, Head of Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress. 2022 ATALM Guardians of Culture and Lifeways International Award honorees,...
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Community Collections Grants: “And We are Still Here:” Stories of Resilience...
Below is an excerpt from a post on the Library’s Of the People blog by Folklife Specialist Guha Shankar who interviews Community Collections Grant recipient Professor Tammy Greer (and team) about their...
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Sports in the Collections of the American Folklife Center
This guest post is from Doug Peach, a Folklife Specialist here at the Library of Congress. In it he describes materials that the Center has drawn on recently for two collection displays focused on...
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Singing in Solidarity: Women’s Voices Celebrate Labor Day
This post is written by Theadocia Austen, the producer of the Center’s long-running Homegrown Concert Series, among other public programs. In celebration of Labor Day, we wanted to honor the...
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“Yet We Desire to Rejoice…in Our Own Language”: Munsee Religious Texts in the...
The following is a guest post by Meg Nicholas, Folklife Specialist at the American Folklife Center. In this post, Nicholas details her search for materials related to the Lenape people at the Library...
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Homegrown Plus: Alejandro Brittes Quartet, Masters of Chamamé
In the Homegrown Plus series, we present Homegrown concerts that also had accompanying oral history interviews, placing both together in an easy-to-find blog post (Find the whole series here). We’re...
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Homegrown Plus: Sihasin’s Music from the Dine Navajo Nation
We’re continuing the Homegrown Plus series with a thrilling 2020 video concert by Sihasin, the sibling duo of Jeneda and Clayson Benally. The Benallys are award winning musicians from the Diné Navajo...
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Homegrown Plus: Charly Lowry
We’re continuing the Homegrown Plus series with a thrilling concert by Charly Lowry, a dynamic singer-songwriter from Pembroke, North Carolina. An Indigenous woman belonging to the Lumbee and Tuscarora...
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AFC and VHP Collections Featured in the New Exhibition, “Collecting Memories:...
This post is co-authored by AFC Folklife Specialist Steve Winick, VHP Reference Librarian Megan Harris, and AFC Folklife Specialist Douglas D. Peach. The text of this post also uses language from...
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AFC’s Community Collections Grantee Spotlight: Ashley Minner Jones on Beyond...
The following is an excerpt of an interview with community-based artist and folklorist Dr. Ashley Minner Jones about her 2024 Community Collections Grant project, Beyond Baltimore Street: Living Lumbee...
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