National Endowment for the Humanities

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on his "Build Back Better" agenda during a visit to the International Union Of Operating Engineers Local 324, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021, in Howell, Mich. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden announces nominees for humanities and arts endowments

President Joe Biden has announced his picks to head the National Endowments for the Humanities and the Arts, tapping a Harvard University scholar and an Arizona State University professor to oversee the federal agencies.

FILE— In this Nov. 7, 2018 file photograph, the Old North Church stands behind a statue of Paul Revere in the North End neighborhood of Boston. The church is famous as the place where in 1775 two lanterns in the steeple signaled that the British were heading to Concord and Lexington, but it's not well known that some of the church's early congregants were slave holders. Now the church, with a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, is integrating that history into its educational mission. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Historic American church set to integrate its slavery ties

FILE - In this Jan. 15, 2017 file photo, President and CEO Paula Kerger speaks at the PBS's Executive Session at the 2017 Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena, Calif. President Donald Trump's 2018 budget proposal plans to kill funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB). "We're celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Public Broadcasting Act, what I think has been the most successful public-private partnership _ how ironic it would be if we were defunded this year," said Kerger, (Photo by Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP, File)

Trump budget clouds Public Broadcasting Act’s 50th year

Tennessee university recording Black families’ oral history

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. (AP) — Middle Tennessee State University will be recruiting for an oral history project during Murfreesboro’s Juneteenth celebration on Saturday.

Providence College Galleries awarded more than $300,000

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Providence College has been awarded more than $300,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to help its art gallery rebound from the coronavirus pandemic.

Indiana humanities groups getting $830K in pandemic relief

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Nearly 80 humanities groups around Indiana are getting a boost with a share of more than $800,000 in federal pandemic relief funding.

Colleges collaborate to preserve tribal language, culture

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The tribal college on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation and the University of North Dakota in Grand Forks are working together on a project to digitally preserve Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara language and culture.

State cultural, arts organizations share $1M in funding

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — More than 100 cultural, humanities and arts nonprofits in Rhode Island are sharing nearly $1 million in federal funds to help them survive and recover from the coronavirus pandemic, officials anounced Monday.

Cultural, humanities nonprofits to share $1M in funding

PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Cultural and humanities nonprofits in Rhode Island are sharing nearly $1 million in federal coronavirus funding to help them recover from the pandemic, officials said Monday.