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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