New Mexico Black Leadership Council

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  • A Conversation with “The Grandmother of Juneteeth”

    A Conversation with “The Grandmother of Juneteeth”

    RSVP HERE to  hear from this voice of history. Dr. Opal Lee is seen as the “Grandmother of Juneteenth” for her role in making June 19 a federally recognized holiday.

    The 97-year-old activist will visit the Land of Enchantment for the very first time to share her family’s journey through tragedy to victory, discuss the significance of Juneteenth in American history, and celebrate New Mexico’s first Black giving circle.

     

    Free, but registration is required.

  • AfroMundo Festival: Screening of Documentary Short “Silence Sam”

    AfroMundo Festival: Screening of Documentary Short “Silence Sam”

    This 18-minute documentary short was directed by young activists in reaction to a documentary that was done about them without their consent. View their story told through their own art! A panel discussion will follow, featuring activists and leaders for change.

    Reservations required. Details coming soon.

  • AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Liz Olivia Fernandez

    AfroMundo Social Justice Series: Liz Olivia Fernandez

    Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of segments of two short documentaries featuring Cuban journalist and activist Liz Olivia Fernandez. Fernandez will be present, and will give a talk before the community discussion.

    Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.

  • Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day 2024

    Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day 2024

    Walk to school to commemorate school integration, and the courage of then-six-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first to integrate her school in 1960 and become the face of a movement.

    Brought to us by a group of elementary schoolers in South San Francisco who took their idea to the state legislature, this day is meant as an annual day of dialogue to commemorate Ruby’s historic steps and to fight racism and all forms of bullying.

  • Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day

    Ruby Bridges Walk to School Day

    Walk to school to commemorate school integration, and the courage of then-six-year-old Ruby Bridges, the first to integrate her school in 1960 and become the face of a movement.

    Brought to us by a group of elementary schoolers in South San Francisco who took their idea to the state legislature, this day is meant as an annual day of dialogue to commemorate Ruby’s historic steps and to fight racism and all forms of bullying.

  • CANCELLED AfroMundo Social Justice Series: American Revolutionary

    CANCELLED AfroMundo Social Justice Series: American Revolutionary

    CANCELLED: Replaced by https://nmblc.org/events/afromundo-social-justice-series-fernandez/

    Join AfroMundo at NHCC’s Wells Fargo Theater for a FREE screening of American Revolutionary, a film about the evolution of 98-year-old Chinese American activist Grace Lee Boggs. 7:00 pm film screening, with panel and community discussion immediately following.

    “What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs is a 98-year-old Chinese American woman in Detroit whose vision of revolution will surprise you. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than 70 years in the African American movement, she has devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompasses the contradictions of America’s past and its potentially radical future. The documentary film, American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs, plunges us into Boggs’s lifetime of vital thinking and action, traversing the major U.S. social movements of the last century; from labor to civil rights, to Black Power, feminism, the Asian American and environmental justice movements and beyond. Boggs’s constantly evolving strategy—her willingness to re-evaluate and change tactics in relation to the world shifting around her—drives the story forward..”

    More info and trailer HERE. Register HERE. UpLift Chronicles article on the film series HERE.

  • “Good Trouble” photo exhibit

    “Good Trouble” photo exhibit

    In the spirit of the late Rep. John Lewis’s advice to “Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble” comes this exhibit of photography documenting and celebrating the role of activists to champion and inspire.

    Images from the 1930s up to now capture leaders and activists from Gandhi to Rosa Parks to Greta Thunberg.

    Exhibit will be on display through September 17.

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