Name: Michael Ayele

Affiliation: Withheld.

Location: UConn Storrs

Request Date Start: Withheld.

Request Date End: Withheld.

Details: I am requesting for prompt disclosure are all records within your possession detailing [1] your communications about the NEH as an “independent federal agency created in 1965;” [2] your communications about the NEH as an independent federal agency, which awards grants for “top-rated proposals examined by panels of independent, external reviewers;” [3] your communications about the NEH grants “typically going to cultural institutions, such as museums, archives, libraries, colleges, universities, public television, radio stations, and to individual scholars;” [4] your communications about the NEH defining the term “humanities” as “the study and interpretation of language, linguistics, literature, history, jurisprudence, philosophy, archaeology, comparative religion, ethics etc;” [5] the applications filed by your library and your post-secondary academic institution with the NEH for the purpose of obtaining a grant; [6] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that Jean Seberg was a Caucasian woman born on November 13th 1938 in Marshalltown, Iowa; [7] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that Jean Seberg “joined the NAACP in 1952, at the age of 14, and championed every cause she crossed paths with;” [8] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that Jean Seberg “donated generously to several organizations, including the Black Panthers, as did Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, and other Hollywood celebrities;” [9] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that “a casual phone call with Black Panther leader Elaine Brown brought” Jean Seberg “to the attention of the FBI;” [10] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that Jean Seberg “was pregnant with her second child” (…) “when the FBI released a tip to the Los Angeles Times stating that the baby was actually fathered by a Black Panther;” [11] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that Jean Seberg “had a breakdown and delivered the baby prematurely” as a direct consequence of libelous articles published on the Los Angeles Times and Newsweek; [12] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that Jean Seberg “sued Newsweek for libel and won $20,000 in damages;” [13] your communications about the NEH as a federal agency, which recognizes that “shortly after Seberg’s funeral, the FBI’s smear campaign against her came to light, as well as other intrusions Seberg had suspected;”[14] your communications about the decision of the Los Angeles Times to recognize (as a news media organization) their responsibility in the premature birth and death of Jean Seberg’s daughter, Nina Hart Gary; [15] your communications about Kristen Stewart as an actress who portrayed Jean Seberg in the 2019 movie entitled: Seberg; cont. [16]

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