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Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta


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UNM rallies past NMSU to win Rio Grande Rivalry


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Bump Alert: All The Black Celebrity Women Pregnant In 2025


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17 Embarrassing Men’s Health Questions…Answered!


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Terence ‘Bud’ Crawford makes history with victory over Canelo Alvarez


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National Night Out

Kirtland Park - Albuquerque, NM
August 12, 2025

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8 Habits Black Men Can Start NOW to Live Longer


8 Habits Black Men Can Start NOW to Live Longer


Erasing Mental Health Stigma in the Black Community


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New Mexico Black Mental Health Coalition (NMBMHC)


Trump escalates attacks against Smithsonian museums, says there’s too much focus on ‘how bad slavery was’

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Trump’s war on the Smithsonian echoes the fight over its founding

Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture Unveils New Trump-Approved Exhibit: Kanye



The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is a civil rights organization formed in 1909 as an interracial endeavor to advance justice for African Americans by a group including W. E. B. Du Bois, Mary White Ovington, Moorfield Storey, Ida B. Wells, Lillian Wald, and Henry Moskowitz. Over the years, leaders of the organization have included Thurgood Marshall and Roy Wilkins

Project 2025 threatens to reverse decades of progress in civil rights, social justice, and equity, impacting Black and marginalized communities. We must fight and advocate to ensure that vision does not become Our 2025.

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Bubba Wallace Becomes First Black Driver to Win Major Race on Indy's Oval 


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1867: A Snapshot of the Military Occupation of New Mexico


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Buffalo Soldiers in New Mexico


The first Black settlement in New Mexico was founded in 1903


The first all-black settlement in New Mexico was incorporated in 1903 and occupied until the mid-1920s by up to 300 people. Blackdom had a school, post office and several churches during this time. 

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Significance of the Afro-Frontier (1903-1929)


David "Happy Jack" Jackson
How a Black Man Created a Legacy in New Mexico


David L. “Happy Jack” Jackson (aka Jack), who moved to the mining boomtown of White Oaks, New Mexico (NM) in 1897. Jack’s story in NM during its early statehood has found a way to radiate a message, over a century later, about the life and conditions of the early Black New Mexican homesteaders.

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President Obama’s Top 50 Accomplishments



The richest person to ere live - King Mansa Musa




Muhammad Ali on Hateful White People



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Although their total numbers in New Mexico were never large, blacks arrived with Spanish explorers and settlers and played active roles in the history of the territory and state.




In No BS, Ivory A. Toldson uses data analysis, anecdotes, and powerful commentary to dispel common myths and challenge conventional beliefs about educating Black children.



Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs—creating an essential read for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.



Do Black Lives Matter to God? takes us on a historical journey through the Bible to illuminate how God sees black people and people of color. This book challenges all educators who have disparaged and ignored the exceptionalism and existence of blacks in the Bible as a way to justify their oppressive beliefs.


It seems that wherever Aria goes, someone wants to touch her hair. In the street, strangers reach for her fluffy curls; and even under the sea, in the jungle, and in space, she's chased by a mermaid, monkeys, and poked by aliens...until, finally, Aria has had enough! 


An epic biography of Malcolm X finally emerges, drawing on hundreds of hours of the author’s interviews, rewriting much of the known narrative.


Nance examines why Putin and his underlings aimed to sabotage the election and how the hacking accomplished a crucial first step for destabilizing the West. 



Sociologist and political commentator Dyson delivers a piercing and wide-ranging analysis of American race relations.



Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African-American Experience 


"Soul Food Advisor" shares more than 150 family recipes from Big Mama s Neck Bone Soup to Harrell s own low-cholesterol, low-sodium Country Black-eyed Peas and Okra. 



Jones's bestselling memoir is a personal account of growing up in the South as a young gay man who's attempting to find himself while battling rocky relationships with family, friends, and lovers. 


Superbly told, with the poet's gift for language and observation,Angelou's autobiography of her childhood in Arkansas.


50 Books Every Black Teen Should Read


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