Category: Black History Month
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Santa Ana Thunder: Black Chamber Basketball Classic
Join Coach Cliff Livingston, former Chicago Bulls Player who earned two championship rings alongside Michael Jordan, at the First Annual Black Chamber Classic! Four pre-season games will be played against a to-be-announced opponent.
Click HERE for your tickets – $10 for one game, $17 for a full day, or $30 for the whole weekend!
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Santa Ana Thunder: Black Chamber Basketball Classic
Join Coach Cliff Livingston, former Chicago Bulls Player who earned two championship rings alongside Michael Jordan, at the First Annual Black Chamber Classic! Four pre-season games will be played against a to-be-announced opponent.
Click HERE for your tickets – $10 for one game, $17 for a full day, or $30 for the whole weekend!
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Santa Ana Thunder: Black Chamber Basketball Classic
Join Coach Cliff Livingston, former Chicago Bulls Player who earned two championship rings alongside Michael Jordan, at the First Annual Black Chamber Classic! Four pre-season games will be played against a to-be-announced opponent.
Click HERE for your tickets – $10 for one game, $17 for a full day, or $30 for the whole weekend!
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Black History Month Celebration at NM Capitol!
Join the New Mexico House of Representatives to celebrate Black History Month!
Students from the Black Student Union at the Albuquerque Academy will provide special programming in the Rotunda at the State Capital from 10:00 – 10:30 a.m. Then honor special guests at the House of Representatives from 10:30 – 11:00.
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Stories from Africa to America
Come on out for Stories from Africa to America by Ms. Marley’s House of Colors (internationally acclaimed storyteller Brenda Hollingsworth-Marley). The event includes storytime & signup for Libro’s Imagination Library, a free monthly book program by mail for Black children (birth to age 5).
Black/African American Families, let’s create & build community through storytelling and create courageous spaces together! Bring your favorite blanket & snuggly pillow!
(Free parking available under Civic Plaza: Just bring your validation slip.)
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Afro-Centrism and American Kinship: A Visual Exploration
Check out this special Encore Presentation of an artist talk reflecting on the inaugural exhibition “Afro-centrism and American Kinship: A Visual Exploration.”
See it HERE.
From ASALH: ‘The exhibit “Afro-centrism and American Kinship…” featured six distinctive locally-based artists: John Brown (photography); Julee Dickerson-Thompson (sculpture); Jourdan Hamilton (Anime); Wayson Jones (abstract art); Greg Scott (graphic art); and Joyce Wellman (abstract art). Explore the questions, “How can we live as Americans, and what is the role of the African American artist in exchanging ideas, insisting on the ideals of democracy and creating a kinder country?”’
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Blackdom, New Mexico Reading and Signing
Join Dr. Timothy E. Nelson for a reading and signing of his book, Blackdom, New Mexico: The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930.
“Blackdom’s civic presence was not lengthy, [but] its significance—and that of the Afro-Frontier—is an important window in the history of Afrotopias, Black Consciousness, and the notion of an American West.”
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Youth Jazz Concert
Talented young musicians will take center stage to showcase the beauty and innovation of jazz, a genre deeply rooted in African American history.
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Coro Lux, Music in the Air: Spirituals and Gospel Music
In recognition of Black History Month, auditioned New Mexico chorus Coro Lux will perform for the first time at the AAPAC. Their program of spirituals and Gospel music, joined by Dr. Stevie Springer and the UNM Gospel Choir Fervent Praise, promises to create an atmosphere of unity and celebration.
Tickets $35. Get yours HERE.