New Mexico Black Leadership Council

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  • Michele Norris: Our Hidden Conversations book talk

    Michele Norris: Our Hidden Conversations book talk

    Peabody Award–winning journalist Michele Norris and Librarian of Congress Dr. Carla Hayden come together for a talk highlighting Norris’s book Our Hidden Conversations: What Americans Really Think About Race and Identity.

     

    Get more details and register HERE.

     

    “The prompt seemed simple: Race. Your Thoughts. Six Words. Please Send…. over half a million people have submitted their stories to The Race Card Project inbox. The stories are shocking in their depth and candor, spanning the full spectrum of race, ethnicity, identity, and class. … This powerful book offers an honest, if sometimes uncomfortable, conversation about race and identity, permitting us to eavesdrop on deep-seated thoughts, private discussions, and long submerged memories.”
  • Pirate Party & Summer Reading Program Kickoff

    Pirate Party & Summer Reading Program Kickoff

    Celebrate the start of 2024’s Summer Reading Program with a Pirate Party at the International District Library! Enjoy activity & craft stations, Pirate Picture Portraits, and a scavenger hunt. Sign up for your reading log and start earning prizes just by reading.

     

    And this Summer Reading Program isn’t just for kids – all ages are welcome to participate. So put on your best pirate swagger and head on down!

  • Make a Día de los Niños Luminaria

    Make a Día de los Niños Luminaria

    Celebrate Children’s Day (and Book Day) by making your own luminaria to take home! Supplies will be provided. Plus, kids get a free book (while supplies last) when they visit an ABQ library between now and April 30!

  • How Indigenous Storytellers Are Changing the Narrative of History

    How Indigenous Storytellers Are Changing the Narrative of History

    Bookworks is partnering with Native America Calling for a special reading and panel discussion. A conversation moderated by Native America Calling‘s own Shawn Spruce will follow readings from readings from three New Mexico authors:

     

    • Deborah Taffa, author of Whiskey Tender and director of the MFA in Creative Writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts;

    • Ramona Emerson, award-winning filmmaker and author of Shutter;

    • and Brandon Hobson, National Book Award Finalist and author of The Removed, Where the Dead Sit Talking, and numerous other books.

    Don’t miss these moving stories and conversations!

  • Books and Brews at Boxing Bear (Adult Book Fair)

    Books and Brews at Boxing Bear (Adult Book Fair)

    Remember going to those awesome kids’ book fairs? Bookworks is hosting one for grownups! Have a drink while browsing specially selected books and novelties. What could be better?

  • Contemporary Rebel Woman Reading

    Contemporary Rebel Woman Reading

    Shirley Campbell Barr, Suzanne Barr, and Yashika Graham will share their poetry and prose.

     

    Shirley Campbell Barr will read selections from her five poetry collections. She has written De Negro Vengo Ataviada, the seminal Rotundamente Negra y Otras Poemas, and Palabras Indelebles de Poetas Negras. Suzanne Barr is the author of My Ackee Tree: A Chef’s Memoir of Finding Home in the Kitchen. Yashika Graham is a Jamaican writer, visual artist, and author of the forthcoming poetry collection Some of Us Can Go Back Home.

    Presented as part of the AfroMundo Festival.

    Photo: Shirley Campbell Barr

  • Reading & Signing with Deborah Taffa and Jamie Figueroa

    Reading & Signing with Deborah Taffa and Jamie Figueroa

    Celebrate the new books by Deborah Taffa and Jamie Figueroa!

     

    Whiskey Tender: A Memoir by Deborah Taffa follows the story of a mixed-tribe Native girl raised in New Mexico and is fully of Native history and family stories. Mother Island: A Daughter Claims Puerto Rico by Jamie Figueroa traces the path of a Puerto Rican woman as she looks to her ancestors to claim her heritage and herself.

  • Valarie Kaur: See No Stranger: Building Beloved Community with Revolutionary Love

    Valarie Kaur: See No Stranger: Building Beloved Community with Revolutionary Love

    Join civil rights leader, author, filmmaker, and Sikh American Valarie Kaur for a book signing and the first lecture of the BeAJEDI program. Kaur reframes the present moment in history as one of transition and calls on us to show up in the labor of birthing a beloved community.

    Registration required. Register HERE.

  • Blackdom, New Mexico Reading and Signing

    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.”

  • Albuquerque Comic-Con

    Albuquerque Comic-Con

    Albuquerque Comic-Con is back! Featuring dozens of actors from your favorite movies and TV shows, cosplay, photo ops, and more!

    Register HERE.

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