New Mexico Black Leadership Council

Category: Black History Month

  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    This doc follows the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocked the world as they exposed the reality of Black life under apartheid.
    The director allows Cole to largely tell his own story through his writings and the vivid lens of his work.

  • Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    Ernest Cole: Lost and Found

    This doc follows the life and work of Ernest Cole, one of the first Black freelance photographers in South Africa. Cole’s early pictures, shocked the world as they exposed the reality of Black life under apartheid.
    The director allows Cole to largely tell his own story through his writings and the vivid lens of his work.

  • Kool & the Gang

    Kool & the Gang

    Have a blast and usher in Black History Month with iconic R&B, soul, and funk band Kool & the Gang!

  • We Will Rest! with Tricia Hersey

    We Will Rest! with Tricia Hersey

    Join Nap Ministry founder Tricia Hersey for a reading from her new book, We Will Rest! The Art of Escape. The audience will be guided in a Collective Daydreaming practice to tap into community care as a radical from of rest.

  • Electric Voices: A Celebration of the Culture

    Electric Voices: A Celebration of the Culture

    New Mexico Black Student Alliance’s Black History Month Event on Sunday, February 23rd at Electric Playhouse will feature speakers, exhibits, vendors, a DJ, plus free food and a chance to play in the Electric Playhouse’s interactive exhibits! (Check out the Instagram video invite HERE.)

    Entry is FREE with RSVP!

     

  • Black Moms Art Healing Circle

    Black Moms Art Healing Circle

    Join writer, ceremonial artist, and priest Tintawi Kaigziabiher to worship the Divine Feminine through the art of waist beading.

  • Freedom Hair movie screening

    Freedom Hair movie screening

    New Mexico is one of only three states that requires braiders to get a full-service cosmetology license (1,200 hours of training!), forcing braiders to waste time and money learning how to use chemicals and dyes, which are practices they do not engage in and outright reject.

    Freedom Hair is a film about one woman’s journey to change a different set of laws targeting braiders, ones preventing Natural Hair Stylists from owning a company. (Movie trailer HERE.)Learn how you can get involved in changing our state’s laws, sign the petition, and meet folks! Snacks provided.

  • Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad

    Vigilance: The Life of William Still, Father of the Underground Railroad

    Join Professor Andrew K. Diemer for an in-depth look at the life of William Still, a New Jersey-born abolitionist. Still who worked with the Philadelphia Anti-Slavery Society and assisted nearly 1,000 individuals in their quest for freedom. Register HERE to stream.

    Presented by the National Museum of African American History & Culture.

  • Afrofuturism with Santa Fe Prep

    Afrofuturism with Santa Fe Prep

    Explore a curated pop-up museum featuring exhibits, dance, and an artist talk presented by Breshaun Joyner’s Afrofuturism Honors class.

  • The Power of Indignation: Richard Wright, Black American Novelist

    The Power of Indignation: Richard Wright, Black American Novelist

    Richard Wright (1908-1960), the author of the novel Native Son (1940) and the autobiography Black Boy (1945), pioneered an influential school of protest literature, becoming the first Black writer to pen a bestseller that overtly criticized racism and white supremacy.

    Darryl Lorenzo Wellington, in character as Wright, will recreate the authors’  life and times, including his final days, and then take questions.

    Register here to participate!

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