This week, share the keynote address from the “2019 UNM African American Student Services Black Cultural Conference: Blackness Unchained,” featuring, Ericka Huggins. Ms. Huggins is a human rights activist, a poet, an educator, a former Black Panther Party leader, and a former political prisoner. Then, stick around for a conversation with Ericka and long-time...
September is Suicide Prevention & Awareness Month. This week, we sit down with two New Mexicans who have dedicated their lives to prevention work after losing loved ones to suicide. We meet Desiree Woodland of Breaking the Silence New Mexico and Bee Chavez from the New Mexico Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide...
This week! We share a lecture from the UNM Africana Studies Cortez Williams Lecture Series, featuring Dr. Stephanie Evans. Dr. Evans isProfessor and Chair for the Department of African American Studies, and Africana Women’s Studies and History for Clark Atlanta University. She researches Black women’s intellectual history, focusing on memoirs and mental health. Dr. Evans...
Hear the powerful speech given by 18 year old Emma Gonzalez, a Parkland student survivor and New Mexico youth bring their thoughts and demands to the issue of campus gun violence.
Jessica Lopez Collins and Lan Sena of Strong Families New Mexico give a legislative recap. And Jessa Cowdrey of CHI St. Vincent Children, joins GJ to talk about Early Childhood Education legislation.
