2025 Winter Lecture Series with El Rancho de las Golondrinas: The Afro-Frontier: Blackdom, Borderlands, and African Diaspora in the Digital Age

2025 Winter Lecture Series with El Rancho de las Golondrinas:The Afro-Frontier: Blackdom, Borderlands, and African Diaspora in the Digital Age

Tickets are now on sale for the 2025 Winter Lecture Series!

This award-winning lecture series has been recognized in the Best of Santa Fe for four years in a row. El Rancho de las Golondrinas has an exciting lineup of lecturers who will be speaking on a variety of fascinating topics.

January 28 | 5:30pm

Dr. Timothy E. Nelson

The Afro-Frontier: Blackdom, Borderlands, and African Diaspora in the Digital Age

Dr. Nelson has provided an in-depth study about the all-Black town of Blackdom, New Mexico. Instead of a story of a failed township of Black people fleeing racial violence and second-class citizenship, he found Blackdomites left the South and Midwest in search of opportunity and sovereignty. Join us and learn about the people who followed their economic and social ambitions, and founded the autonomous Black community of Blackdom.

When: January 28,  and doors open at 5:00 pm.

Where: St. Francis Auditorium, New Mexico Museum of Art

Tickets: $10 each or $25 for Three Lectures (Purchase the ticket bundle to save!)

Free for Members of Las Golondrinas and MNMF.

The lecture series has sold out in the past, so be sure to secure your tickets early for each lecture. Tickets may not be available at the door if the events sell out. Please note that the $25 ticket bundle is only available online through HoldMyTicket