America’s Media Makers
This program supports media projects (including radio, television, and digital technology projects) that explore significant events, figures, or developments in the humanities. Development grants enable media producers to collaborate with scholars to develop the humanities content and format and to prepare programs for production; production grants support the preparation of a program for distribution.
Guidelines URL (Development Grants): www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_development.html
Guidelines URL (Production Grants): www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/AmMediaMakers_production.html

TI-50016, WGBH Educational Foundation:
We Shall Remain.
We Shall Remain is a multiformat media project, including a five-part television series, a Web site, and ancillary public programs. A 2006 grant supported production of two of the one-hour programs and the project Web site.  The project explores the interconnection between Native American history and American history, illuminating the survival strategies that Indians adopted to meet the challenges posed to them by whites and by themselves. Beyond the prime-time television broadcast, WGBH partnered with Native American Public Telecommunications to make innovative use of mobile-phone video to enable “citizen storytellers” to produce personal documentaries that tell their stories of being Native American in the twenty-first century. These short documentaries, ReelNative, are presented on the project’s Web site. The project also created We Shall Remain coalitions to bring together Native organizations and tribes, libraries, historical societies, museums, schools, and other groups to plan and sponsor activities that promote understanding of local Native history and contemporary life and bring the humanities to audiences in underserved Native American communities.
Project URL: www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/

UI-50026, World Music Productions:
Afropop Worldwide.
Afropop Worldwide, a presentation of World Music Productions, offers weekly hour-long radio broadcasts, a content-rich Web site, and collaborative public programs that illuminate the history, politics, poetry, and ethnic and spiritual contexts of the music of the worldwide African Diaspora. The project components effectively use music as a means of presenting the profound origins of, and interrelationships among, contemporary world cultures. The Web site provides alternative pathways to materials, including music, texts, audio commentary, and imagery. The online content—an example of social media—seeks to engage younger, more technology-oriented audiences. It facilitates dialogue and information sharing between scholars and user/listeners. A 2007 grant supported the production and distribution of ten original programs and fourteen re-edited programs for the 2007-08 season.
Project URL: www.afropop.org/