Maryland Humanities Awards Prince George's County Project $10,000

PRINCE GEORGE’S COUNTY, MD — Maryland Humanities, a nonprofit organization, awarded $99,498 in grants to 10 Maryland based organizations.

With organizations across the state of Maryland, the grantees come from Baltimore City, Caroline County, Frederick County, Montgomery County, Prince George’s County, St. Mary’s County, and Talbot County.

The grant program’s funding goes toward non-profit organizations that practice humanities such as literature, history and philosophy. Some of the projects featured in this year’s grant program include virtual writing workshops, a reearch study, and discussions on race, slavery and reparations.

The following organizations received funding from Maryland Humanities:

• African-American Resources Cultural Heritage Society (AARCH)
• Digital Content to Expand Programming and Enhance Access for AARCH Audiences
• Frederick County
• Grant Award: $9,998
• Catoctin Furnace Historical Society
• Braided Lives: Troublin de Water—Catoctin Furnace’s Enslaved through Poetry, Song & Narrative
• Frederick County
• Grant Award: $10,000
• CHARM
• CHARM: Voices of Baltimore Youth
• Baltimore City
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Chesapeake Film Festival
• Chesapeake Film Festival: Great Stories Begin Here
• Talbot County
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Civic Works, Docs in Progress, Historic Sotterley
• Telling the Story of Enslaved People at Baltimore’s Clifton Mansion
• Baltimore City
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Docs In Progress
• Silver Spring Screenings and Community Stories Festival
• Montgomery County
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Historic Sotterley
• Transcending Barriers to Common Ground
• St. Mary’s County
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Joe’s Movement Emporium
• Commissioning Project: Freedom Story
• Prince George’s County
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Minary’s Dream Alliance
• History of the Shantytowns on Kent Narrows
• Caroline County
• Grant Award: $10,000
• Pride of Baltimore
• A Deeper Dive: Pride of Baltimore’s 2021/2022 Speaker Series
• Baltimore City
• Grant Award: $9,500

One of the grants will go to Joe’s Movement Emporium’s commissioning project, Freedom Story. Hailing from Prince George’s County, the arts organization received $10,000 for the project.

The Freedom Story plans to create historical content relevant to present day by drawing on content from A Question of Freedom: The Families Who Challenged Slavery from the Nation's Founding to the Civil War by historian Dr. William G. Thomas, III.

The project will also conduct a present-day research assignment with enslaved descendants from Prince George’s County. Freedom Story will conclude with a production script and a staged reading series.