Telling New Mexico Inaugural Lecture First in a series, in conjunction with the exhibit Telling New Mexico: Stories From Then and Now. Topic: The Pioneers of the Blackdom Community and the African-American Experience in New Mexico, speakers: Pastor Landjur Abukusumo, founder and chairman of the Blackdom Memorial Foundation. Thomas Lark, African American Performing Arts Center curator, and Gregory Allen Waits, Blackdom Memorial Gardens project designer: The AfroGospel Praise Experience ensemble performs during the program, 2 p.m.. New Mexico History Museum Auditorium, 113 Lincoln Ave.. $10. tickets available at the NMHM and Palace of the Governors shops or online. museumfoundation.org.
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Santa Fe., N. M., Sept. 10.--The Blackdom Townsite company was incorporated with a capital stock of $10,000. The purpose is to establish a colony of negroes from the southern states in Chavez county, the name of town to be Blackdom.