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In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month we honor and recognize the contribution of Afro Hispanics/Latinxs and all Hispanics/Latinxs. We join in solidarity in fighting for all who seek freedom, justice and equality. La lucha continúa - The struggle continues.
Applications for a cohort-based program will open in the Fall 2023 semester at The University of New Mexico for students interested in researching with Black communities. Black Research 101 was developed by Celine Ayala, a doctoral student in the...
Alabama voters head to the polls for the midterm elections next week. One ballot item would abolish slavery in the state. The vote takes place one hundred and fifty seven years after the thirteenth amendment ended the practice nationally. Historians say many of the estimated four hundred thousand enslaved people, who were freed, chose to live out their lives in Alabama. APR spoke to some of their descendants who say they’re still dealing with the impact of the slave trade. The Alabama Public Radio newsroom spent nine months investigating one aspect of that. Namely, the effort to preserve sla...
Alabama voters head to the polls for the November midterm election next month. One issue on the ballot would do away with slavery. It’s still allowed in the state constitution. Alabama Public Radio news spent nine months looking into one lingering aspect of the slave trade. APR’s focus is on finding and preserving slave cemeteries in the state. By the time of the Civil War, an estimated four hundred thousand people were held as slaves in Alabama. Some accounts put the number throughout the South at closer to four million. That would appear to make the issue of slave cemetery preservation a...
George Mason University's College of Visual and Performing Arts announced artist educator and co-founder of Pomo Afro Homos Djola Branner will be the next Director of the School of Theater. Branner starts July 1, transitioning from his most recent role as Professor of Theater at Hampshire College.