Category: New Mexico Black Leadership Council
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Roots Summer Leadership Academy
Have fun, build community, and learn leadership skills at the 2023 NMBLC Roots Leadership Academy! Classes include Dance, Theater, STEM, Music, Visual Arts, and Social/Emotional Learning. Also included are field trips, performances, and caregiver workshops! Registration open until June 30 for kids 8 to 16. Don’t miss the summer fun! Final performance and celebratory luncheon on July 28 at 11:30 am.
Breakfast, lunch, and snacks provided to students daily. Transportation will be provided from the International District. Mandatory Parent/Caregiver Orientation is Sunday, July 9, 2023 at 4pm.
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True NM Art Exhibition: Self-Portraits
Celebrate the work of NM’s Asian and Black/African youth artists! This exhibit showcases self-portraits of these artists as they work to explore identity, strengthen community, and address racism through their art.
True New Mexico is an annual anti-racism, youth-centered, arts-based project developed as a collaboration between the New Mexico Asian Family Center (NMAFC) and the New Mexico Black Leadership Council (NMBLC). Each spring, a cohort of Black/African American and/or AAPINH young artists create original self-portraits guided by the prompt “What’s your True New Mexican story?”
FREE family fun, art activities and food! RSVP HERE!
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National Day of Giving- Giving Tuesday Join the Movement
Giving Tuesday is a global reminder that unleashes the power of generosity to organizations that are working to transform their communities and the world. Join in and take part of the generosity movement and help ours and other organizations who are making a real impact. A single gift can make a real difference in the how far we can reach and every gift is greatly appreciated, no matter what amount it is!
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Holiday Blues? Food for the Soul: A Holistic & Nutritional Approach to Black Mental Wellness
“Holiday Blues” impacts our emotions with varying degrees of intensity and duration. Nutrition and diet during the holiday season are particularly important. Black/African American food choices were influenced negatively by the slave trade that still affects food patterns in the US today.
This is a workshop to provide awareness and understanding of how nutrition and diet impacts our mental health while providing information on holistic and nutritional value involving plant based diets and oils supporting mental wellness!
We welcome our guest workshop lecturer Dr. Ruby Lathon, PhD, Holistic Nutritionist & Key Note Speaker, Dr. Jessica Hairston, MD, Psychiatrist
Workshops on Thursday, November 18, 2021:
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Provider workshop – 2:00pm – 4:00pm MST (2.0 cultural CEU hours are provided for FREE)
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Community workshop – 5:00pm – 7:00pm MST
Learning Objectives
- Awareness of historical relevance and the impact of food choices by Black/African Americans.
- Understand how Holistic and Nutritional values lead to a healthier lifestyle.
- Participants will be provided information on plant based diets and oils that impact mental wellness.
2.0 hour cultural CEUs will be provided for professionals (mental health, counselors, social work, etc.) for PROVIDER workshop.
Please fill out the following form to secure your spot in the workshop and to receive the online meeting information.
If you have any questions, please contact us at Info@NMBLC.org!
Thank you to NM Bernalillo County Behavioral Health Initiatives, Behavioral Health Training and Education Services Grant for supporting these opportunities in our community.
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Back to School S.A.I.L
Back To School S.A.I.L (Smart, Able, Intelligent, Leaders) : Assisting Black/African American Youth in maneuvering their voyage in the school system with more confidence!
Learn how to embrace and build an anti-racist, culturally responsive, and inclusive school environment that allows Black/African American children to thrive by establishing high expectations, listening and affirming their experiences and specific needs. Dr. Bannermann, Deputy Secretary of the NM Public Education Department and Amy Whitfield, Executive Director of NM State Office of African American Affairs will share opening statements leading to Dr. Kennetha L.Frye’s,PHD presentation.
Contrary to a pervasive narrative that racial disparities in education are the result of disengagement on the part of students, Black/African American youth indicate that success in school is a high priority among other competing factors.
A negative competing factor that cannot be negated is the social and racial stressors Black/African American youth face within the school system and certain communities. A new study surrounding persistent social stressors has found rising rates of depression, anxiety and other disorders in black youth, who once had lower rates than White peers.
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Roots Summer Leadership Showcase
You are Invited to See Up Close What our Youth have been Working on All Summer!
Roots Summer Leadership Academy is an outdoor summer enrichment program for young people aged 8 – 16 years old. Our program is a fun-filled and vigorous program of social emotional learning, STEM, and art. Our theme this year is Nishati, which is Swahili for energy.
At this outdoor showcase you will view our student’s art, STEM, and social & emotional learning projects. Meet the talented young people behind each work of art and get to know more about Roots Summer Leadership Academy. Food will be provided at the event.
Learn More About RSLA
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Strong Black Woman Schema: Approaches to Treating Trauma in Black Women
Presented by Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett, Ph.D.
The past 15 months have been traumatic for all Americans. No group has been more impacted than Black women. The dual pandemics of COVID and racism have significantly increased the incidence of trauma for Black females. Multiple traumas have been experienced and the strong Black women motif that at times has served as a protective factor now heightens the risk for trauma. In this workshop, pioneering anxiety expert and clinical psychologist Dr. Angela Neal-Barnett shares about Black women and trauma. She demonstrates the impact of trauma on Black women physically and psychologically. She shares why a culturally competent approach to understanding and treating trauma is important for Black women. Special attention is given to racial trauma
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Afrofuturism Lecture Series: Unbought and Unbossed: Janelle Monae’s Productive Performances at the Intersections of Black Political Consciousness, Black Materiality, and Afro-Futurism
Presented by Dr. Andrea L. Mays, Ph.D.,
University of New MexicoModerated by Dr. Finnie Coleman,
University of New MexicoThis talk examines Janelle Monáe’s ‘Emotion Picture’ Dirty Computer (2018) with an eye towards situating her cultural and political significance as an artist, activist, and performer enacting Aspirational Futures in the Black Diaspora.
Andrea L. Mays holds a PhD in American Studies focusing on 20th and 21st Century African American Culture and Politics, Visual Culture, and Gender Studies. She also has a M.A. in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, and a B.A. in Communications from George Mason University. Dr. Mays is a Mellon Fellow, UNM Provost’s Race and Social Justice Teaching Fellow, and an Award-Winning Lecturer in UNM’s Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Program, and UNM’s Department of American Studies. She teaches courses in Feminist Studies, Film, Literature, and Race, Class, and Gender Studies.
