{"id":2158,"date":"2021-02-18T11:04:20","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T18:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2022-06-22T10:06:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T16:06:49","slug":"black-writers-featured-in-the-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/black-writers-featured-in-the-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Writers Featured in The Paper"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The February \u2018Being Black in New Mexico\u2019 edition of The Paper is written entirely by local Black writers.<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We took over the <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/being-black-in-new-mexico-the-papers-black-history-month-special-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February Black History edition<\/a> of The Paper. And by we, I mean <a href=\"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">myself<\/a> and other Black New Mexican writers. The Paper\u2019s managing editor, Tierna Unruh-Enos, turned over the <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/2021\/02\/share-the-mic\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February 17th edition entirely to guest writers in the Black community<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>I<\/strong> wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/2021\/02\/cafecito-con-colon-amplifies-black-voices\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Black conversations series<\/a> that happened on Cafecito con Col\u00f3n in the wake of the killing of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Tracy Dingmann<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/2021\/02\/businesses-report-boost-after-blm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">interviewed Black business owners <\/a>about the effect of the Black Lives Matter movement on their business. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Gene Grant<\/strong> wrote about the <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/2021\/02\/we-sing-our-own-song\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">need for Black Voices to fill the void<\/a> in media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Ramona King<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/2021\/02\/we-are-the-ones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">covered Black filmmakers in New Mexico <\/a>and how they\u2019re creating their own stories. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Zarah Bundrage<\/strong> got the <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/2021\/02\/new-mexico-black-artists-weave-history-and-art\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">rundown on artist groups<\/a> in New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thank you to <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Paper<\/a> for providing this space to amplify Black voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grab the print edition for free at any one of <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/pickup\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">150 distribution sites<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Preview the &#8216;Being Black in New Mexico&#8217; digital edition here: <a href=\"https:\/\/abq.news\/being-black-in-new-mexico-the-papers-black-history-month-special-edition\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/abq.news\/being-black-in-new-mexico-the-papers-black-history-month-special-edition\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">View the Cafecito Amplify Black Voices playlist on YouTube here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLt9YW_0y_vRAChHFiBmOlq5ob117xKlz9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLt9YW_0y_vRAChHFiBmOlq5ob117xKlz9<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black writers are the sole contributors to the \u2018Being Black in New Mexico\u2019 special edition of the weekly The Paper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,26,12,155,63],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-2158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-civic-engagement","category-cultural-vibrancy","category-eq-online","category-featured","category-the-paper","tag-new-mexico-black-history-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/EqOnline-Banner.png?fit=822%2C315&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2158"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2166,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2158\/revisions\/2166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmblc.org\/old-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}