New Mexico Black Leadership Council has big IDeas for economic growth and development in International District
Last Tuesday at the New Mexico Black Leadership Council’s (NMBLC) headquarters at 1314 Madeira Dr. SE, local business owners, city leaders and public safety organizations gathered to celebrate a year of economic growth and community engagement in the International District, a neighborhood that has one of the highest population densities in the state and arguably contains the city’s most resilient residents.
We are all familiar with the area: It’s tough, it’s diverse, and it’s busy. But it’s full of life.
To say that the International District doesn’t represent New Mexico doesn’t just ignore the beauty that exists within the approximately 3.9-square-mile area bounded by San Mateo, Lomas, Wyoming and Gibson, it’s statistically inaccurate. And let’s be honest, to romantically depict New Mexico as a place where only Indigenous, brown and white people exist in a weird American microcosm reminiscent of a 1950s Western is delusional at best. According to the New Mexico Black Leadership Council, 68,000 black people live in New Mexico, and more than half of them call Albuquerque home…
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Commentary Dede Feldman is a former NM State Senator representing Albuquerque’s North Valley. She served on the 2001 legislative redistricting committee. A few of us had Blackberries, but in those days, it was mostly flip phones, and that’s how we found out. The Texans were coming. It was 2003 and the message was from the […]
Nearly three-quarters of Albuquerque’s 25,400 Native American residents cannot afford monthly housing payments of $1,500 or more, according to a groundbreaking three-year city study released Friday that marks the first comprehensive urban Native housing analysis led by a municipal government. The finding creates a stark affordability gap in a city where median home prices currently […]
Got something to say? Come out to Poetry and Beer – it happens here! This month, Tractor Brewing Wells Park plays host to the longest running open mic and poetry slam in New Mexico. Come listen, judge, compete, or just read! Have some fun!21 unless with parent or guardian
Two Films: Nagasaki Journey and Dark Circle, with filmmakers 
present for Q&A https://cbfilms.net/portfolio-item/nagasaki-journey/ 
 https://www.pbs.org/video/pov-dark-circle-trailer/
Chatter ABQ’s August 2025 concert series is inspired by the exhibition Modern Art and Politics in Germany 1910-1945, which opens August 23. The series features works by composers whose work was censored as “degenerate music” by the Nazi regime in 1930s Germany.Arnold Schoenberg’s String Quartet no. 2 is a modernist landmark. While it begins and ends in F-sharp minor, this work was one of the first to veer into pure atonality, and also contains a part for voice, here sung by soprano Tara Khozein. In the final two movements, Schoenberg sets poetry by Stefan George, including the famous line “I feel air from another planet.”This series is made possible in part by New Mexico Arts.
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