Africana Studies

With new director Kirsten Pai Buick at the helm, the Africana Studies program at The University of New Mexico is looking forward to a major leap this year. Buick, who is also a professor of Art History, Associate Dean of Equity and Excellence, and...

Kirsten Pai Buick, Professor of Art History and interim Director of Africana Studies at The University of New Mexico, will be the main speaker at this year’s Africana Studies Black History Month (Virtual) Kickoff Brunch on Saturday, Jan. 29, at 10:30...

To mark Black History Month in February, the African American Student Services at The University of New Mexico has slated a series of virtual...

The University of New Mexico's Africana Studies program will mark its 51st anniversary with the 36th annual Black History Month Kickoff Brunch on Saturday, Jan. 30, at 11 a.m.  Guest speaker will be Melina Abdullah, professor and former chair of...

It was soon after her 30th birthday that Beth Glenn woke up one night and told herself “I have to do something different.” A fan of the series ‘Breaking Bad,’ which was filmed in New Mexico, she decided Albuquerque looked intriguing, so she packed up,...

It was August 28, 1963, when civil rights activist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic I Have a Dream speech on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in our nation’s capital. It was delivered in front of some 250,000 people at the "March on...

As the state’s flagship university, The University of New Mexico takes pride in being a “community of unique perspectives embracing divergence, letting the very things that divide us become the things that connect us to each other. What makes us...

From the moment the first African slaves were brought to the shores of Virginia and sold to the colonists there in 1619, the battle for education for African-Americans has been hard-fought and often cruel. As the groundbreaking New York Times 1619 series...

In detail, Myra Washington can explain the very moment media literacy seized her attention and never let go; it was during her years studying communication as an undergraduate, at Vanderbilt University where she vowed to never again consume media the...

Our country is currently experiencing a monsoon of fear, raining down in torrents day in and day out. Sometimes it looks like a pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. Other times it looks like police aggressively restraining one man...