Bring the family, a chair or a blanket, visit the food truck court, watch a movie, learn and have fun! When I Rise is the powerful story of Barbara Smith Conrad, a gifted University of Texas music student who becomes a target of racial discrimination and ultimately ascends to the heights of international opera. When I Rise informs, inspires, and surprises, with a stunning confrontation between Barbara and her past and the tragic insults she endured over 60 years ago. Movie starts at dusk.  Admission is free.  A limited number of reserve seats are available at the link below.  ...

From the comfort of your home, watch this virtual event. A landmark PBS documentary, Tulsa: The Fire and the Forgotten examines the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre on the 100th anniversary of the crime. The film includes interviews with descendants of victims and probes how their families’ devastating experience affects their lives in today’s America, and also documents the current excavation of potential mass graves from the massacre. Through the historical lens of white violence and Black resistance, this project explores issues of atonement, reconciliation, and reparation in the past, present and future. This is a free event but registration is required.

Don's just stand there. Do something!!! This virtual discussion will shine a light on how you can make a difference in your corner of the world.  We are each other's keepers.  This event is free but registration is required.

Don's just stand there. Do something!!! This virtual discussion will shine a light on how you can make a difference in your corner of the world.  We are each other's keepers.  This event is free but registration is required.

Join us for an immersive oral history and story telling workshop with the city of San Antonio's Poet Laureate, Andrea "Vocab" Sanderson. Please check in at SAAACAM @ La Villita.  The workshop is at the Cos House, next to the Arneson River Theatre, Building 18.  Space is limited. Register today,

As the first civil settlement in the state of Texas, there are a ton of historical sites and legendary tales that have helped to shape the culture of our community. In the original documentary film Walk on the River: A Black History of the Alamo City the African American experience is shared from the time of Emancipation (roughly 1865) to Integration and the end of Jim Crow segregation (roughly 1965).   Food truck court will be open.  Movie begins at dusk.  Discussion, plus Q & A follows the movie. Complimentary reserved seating is available at the link below. SAAACAM is...

EDINBURG, Texas – A little known chapter of Civil War history makes for a dramatic story told in “Just a Ferry Ride to Freedom,” a documentary produced by the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley.  The film is based on the choice made by enslaved runaways prior to the Civil War, to head south instead of north, to Mexico using another Underground Railroad.  The route to freedom would be longer over treacherous terrain between the Nueces and Rio Grande Rivers.   But similar to the one started by Harriet Tubman for those fleeing to the north, heroic mixed race families in...