Episode 716 | African American History in NM

This week on New Mexico in Focus, host Gene Grant speaks with three experts
about African American history in New Mexico ahead of the new PBS
documentary “The African Americans: Many Rivers to Cross,” by Henry Louis
Gates Jr., which premiers on October 22. The six-hour series explores the
evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of
cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social
perspectives they developed – forging their own history, culture and society
against unimaginable odds. Guests for the local segment include Rita
Powdrell and Brenda Dabney, who co-founded the exhibit “New Mexico’s African
American Legacy – Visible, Vital, and Valuable,” which has been traveling
the state, as well as Diana Dorn-Jones, executive director of United South
Broadway Corp. and founding member of the Anti-Racism Institute of the
Southwest.

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