HBCU Radio Archives

CTL-E-0794 · Archive · collection · unspecified

Verified evidence grade of this record

Broadcast archives of 29 HBCU radio stations: reel-to-reel, cassettes, floppy disks, unlabeled CDs - some tapes already "past repair"; at one school, nothing saved from 40+ years of broadcasting. A $5M Mellon grant (2023) funds the HBCU Radio Preservation Project.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-045; source research type(s): collection. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

Sources

NPR/WUOT, 2020-02-16

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