#californiaculture

2025-10-11

New-to-Me, from Editor & Publisher: Mapping Black California turns data into stories of equity and resilience. “The team frequently utilizes ArcGIS, an advanced software application used to create interactive maps, to visualize concerns related to racial inequity. With the world literally at their fingertips, they’ve explored how cities spend their money on policing, where money goes in […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/11/editor-publisher-mapping-black-california-turns-data-into-stories-of-equity-and-resilience/

2025-08-07

New-to-me, from KQED: He’s Saving 20,000 Tapes of Underground Music and Making it Free to All. “On any given day, this is where you’ll find [Shayne] Stacy, the founder of the nonprofit Sacramento Music Archive. Just a half-hour’s drive from Sutter’s Mill and its famous California discovery, Stacy tends methodically to his own goldmine: a mass of underground music from Sacramento, the […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/07/kqed-hes-saving-20000-tapes-of-underground-music-and-making-it-free-to-all/

2025-07-29

UC Santa Cruz: Announcement: New Online Archive of California. “Many researchers use the Online Archive of California (OAC) to access descriptive information about archival collections across the state, including at UCSC. We are excited to announce that the California Digital Library recently upgraded this site, which they have completely rebuilt adapting community-supported open source […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/29/announcement-new-online-archive-of-california-uc-santa-cruz/

2025-07-27

Coachella Valley Independent: Losing Our History? Funding for the California Digital Newspaper Collection Was Restored—but UC Riverside Laid Off All of the Employees Responsible for the Project Anyway. “Despite all of this good news, however, the future of the California Digital Newspaper Collection (cdnc.ucr.edu) remains unclear—and Geiger is now unemployed, along with the rest of his […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/27/coachella-valley-independent-losing-our-history-funding-for-the-california-digital-newspaper-collection-was-restored-but-uc-riverside-laid-off-all-of-the-employees-responsible-for-the-projec/

2025-04-25

Los Angeles Sentinel: Rare Recordings of L.A. Choirs to Be Part of Baylor University’s Black Gospel Archive. “‘The Saviour Home Record Library,’ an anthology of Los Angeles gospel choirs in the 1960s, is being made available online by the Black Gospel Archive and Listening Center at Baylor University. Compiled by B-movie filmmaker Jim “Buddy” Ball, the 40-album set features tracks that […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/25/los-angeles-sentinel-rare-recordings-of-l-a-choirs-to-be-part-of-baylor-universitys-black-gospel-archive/

2025-04-18

Internet Archive: Community Webs Digitization Grant Reveals Stories of San Francisco’s Immigrant Communities . “In 2023, the Community Webs program was awarded a grant from the National Historical Publication and Records Commission for the ‘Collaborative Access to Diverse Public Library Local History Collections’ project. This grant supported the digitization of local history collections […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/18/internet-archive-community-webs-digitization-grant-reveals-stories-of-san-franciscos-immigrant-communities/

2025-03-22

California State Library: Groundwork Announces Grants to 87 Cultural Heritage Organizations Across the State. This link goes to a PDF file. “The 87 organizations – from Alpine County in the north to San Diego County in the south — are receiving support ranging from environmental monitoring equipment, protective storage containers, map cases, disaster planning consultation, and disaster […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/22/california-state-library-groundwork-announces-grants-to-87-cultural-heritage-organizations-across-the-state/

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