HBCU Radio Preservation Project $5M grant

CTL-E-0848 · Event · other · unspecified

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(2023) The $5M Mellon grant (2023) to WYSO with NEDCC to preserve 29 HBCU radio stations' archives.

Notes

Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from PRESERVE-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-PRESERVE-001:CTL-PRESERVE-E-107; source research type(s): event. Era not present in source research record(s); marked unspecified pending human review.

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