Deborah talks about how our past connects us to our future.  Join a lively interactive session of storytelling.

Be a part of history! We are collecting memorabilia from 54 years of the Martin Luther King Jr. March. Bring your items from the marches and we will record your March stories.

Just in time for what would have been Muhammad Ali’s 80th birthday, KLRN invites you to join local community leaders for a discussion on Ali’s legacy, his activism, and how he used his platform to speak out against social issues like racial injustice and poverty. Hear how he inspired local members of the community to do the same. Q&A to follow. In collaboration with: Go Public Moderator: Mr. Bobby Blount, Chair, Go Public Panelists: Mr. Robert Harris – Principal Harlan High School Mrs. Deborah Jarmon – San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum (SAAACAM) Dr. Gary Bates – Superintendent...

Trinity University presents its 2022 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Lecture speaker, Anneliese M. Bruner, in collaboration with Trinity University Press, the TU Student Diversity and Inclusion Office, the San Antonio Martin Luther King Jr. Commission, and the San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum. Due to COVID-19 concerns, her presentation will be live-streamed at 7 p.m., Thursday, January 20, on Trinity’s Tiger Network. The lecture is free and can be viewed here trinity.edu/live. Anneliese M. Bruner is the great granddaughter of Tulsa race massacre survivor and author Mary E. Jones Parrish, whose contemporaneous eyewitness account, The Nation Must...

White privilege is an institutional (rather than personal) set of benefits granted to those of us who, by race, resemble the people who dominate the powerful positions in our institutions. One of the primary privileges is that of having greater access to power and resources than people of color do; in other words, purely on the basis of our skin color doors are open to us that are not open to other people. --- Francis E. Kendall, PhD Join us as we discuss this tough topic with middle schoolers.

White privilege is an institutional (rather than personal) set of benefits granted to those of us who, by race, resemble the people who dominate the powerful positions in our institutions. One of the primary privileges is that of having greater access to power and resources than people of color do; in other words, purely on the basis of our skin color doors are open to us that are not open to other people. --- Francis E. Kendall, PhD Join us as we discuss this tough topic with middle schoolers.

The Bronze Buckaroo – Cowboy Bob Blake (Herbert Jeffries) and four friends ride to Arizona to help Betty Jackson (Artie Young), the sister of Bob’s friend, Joe (Rollie Hardin), who has gone missing. Bob meets the Jacksons’ neighbor, Buck Thorn (Clarence Brooks), who says that he’d offered to buy the Jackson ranch but wasrejected. Unknown to Bob and his friends, Thorn holds Joe hostage to torture him into signing over his property, which hides a valuable mine. When Betty then disappears, Bob decides to take on Thorn.   Two Gun Man from Harlem – A cowboy is wrongfully accused of...

Join us for 100 minutes of Black History on the beautiful San Antonio River.  Our engaging tour guides will take you on a thought-provoking mental journey through time. Learn about the impact of African Americans in the center core of San Antonio.  If a scheduled date does not work for you, we can schedule a private charter for you. Feel free to contact us for charter information at programdir@saaacam.org

VIA and SAAACAM have partnered to honor the life and legacy of Civil Rights pioneer Rosa Parks, who would have turned 109 this month. The community is invited to join the celebration from 2 - 3 p.m., Thursday, Feb. 17, 2022, at La Villita. Enjoy refreshments and a live performance from storyteller and actor Jean Donatto as “Sister Rosa Parks.” Stay for a tour of VIA’s fully restored, vintage Dreamliner bus and visit the VIA exhibit at SAAACAM, 218 S. Presa St., La Villita. This is a FREE event.