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Rachel Balkovec reported to the New York Yankees’ Spring Training complex in Florida Saturday, Feb. 1, 2020 as the team’s minor league hitting coach, but just 10 years ago the 32 year old was living in Albuquerque as a Lobo. “I loved living in...

To mark Black History Month, the UNM African American Student Services (AASS) will host two multimedia concert performance of Langston Hughes’ Ask Your...

The University of New Mexico's Africana Studies program is marking its 50th anniversary with a line-up of events, starting with a Black History Month Kickoff Brunch featuring well-known journalist Roland Martin. The event is set for Saturday, Jan....

The University of New Mexico's Center for Regional Studies hosts a lecture presented by Visiting Scholar Yolonda Youngs titled, “Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon” on Friday, Nov. 8, at 2 p.m. in the Frank Waters Room in Zimmerman Library....

In Zimmerman Library on the campus of The University of New Mexico, there is a facsimile of the Godescalc Gospel Lectionary, an illuminated manuscript created by a Frankish scribe named Godescalc. Professor Timothy Graham, wearing white gloves and using...

Nick Estes, assistant professor in the American Studies Department at The University of New Mexico, will be at the UNM Bookstore on Wednesday, April 17 at 2 p.m. to speak about and sign his latest book Our History is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the...

The Center for the Southwest at The University of New Mexico announces the 2019 C. Ruth and Calvin P. Horn Lecture. Historians Annette Gordon-Reed and Peter S. Onuf will present “Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the...

With southern origins dating back to the time of American slavery, soul food remains a modern-day staple of African American cuisine across the country. For the fourth year running, The University of New Mexico’s African American Student Services (AASS)...

UPDATE: This event has been cancelled. Please visit UNM's Africana Studies page for more information on the Cortez Williams Spring 2019 Lecture Series. From lecture halls to Grammy award-winning music to young adult novels, contemporary culture is rife...

This weekend, Africana Studies at The University of New Mexico hosts its 34th annual Black History Month Kickoff Brunch, which serves to both honor Black achievement at the University and engage the Albuquerque community with a national Black speaker of...