Organizations Lose Pivotal Grants as DOGE Takes Axe to Humanities Agency

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The West End Museum in Boston was informed yesterday of the termination of its $25,000 NEH grant, announced in January, to pursue explore LGBTQ+ presence and activism in the historic neighborhood. The museum’s origins date back to the displacement of residents from the ethnically diverse West End by so-called “urban renewal” programs of the 1950s.

“Our organization was founded by people whose homes were seized and destroyed using federal funding,” Executive Director Sebastian A. Belfanti told Hyperallergic. “That meant that winning federal support for the first time last year was especially meaningful, and losing it carries meaning beyond its economic impacts.”

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