By Kristin Satterlee  Here at the New Mexico Black Leadership Council (NMBLC), kids count. We know New Mexico can do better for its children than it is now—we want to see our state at the top of all the good… Read more

By ReyAnn Haney  Albuquerque’s Black hair salon and barber shop scene is perpetually evolving. Our city and state have achieved big wins, especially when it comes to natural hair. For over three years now, New Mexico Black Leadership Council’s (NMBLC)… Read more

By Kai Warrior  At UpLift Chronicles, we pride ourselves on sharing relevant, timely and timeless need-to-know information. We push health and wellness toward the top of that list, providing help, resources, and information to take care of our minds and… Read more

By Kristin Satterlee  There are a lot of good eats in Albuquerque, and the UpLift Chronicles has been bringing you the 311 on them since 2022. Our community newspaper started our food coverage with Rude Boy Cookies. Since then we… Read more

By Samantha Anne Carrillo, UpLift Chronicles Managing Editor  Advocacy and civic engagement both involve the art of showing up—for ourselves, for our neighbors, for the future we dare imagine. In UpLift Chronicles, we carry forward the New Mexico Black Leadership… Read more

By Cathryn McGill, NMBLC Founder and Director   Thank You For Reading …  I’m proud of this paper. When we launched the UpLift Chronicles, we didn’t have a budget or a blueprint—just conviction. It’s an honor to build dialogue, not division.… Read more

By ReyAnn Haney  The fear of gun violence is always there—a low hum in my life that has replaced the simple feelings of being or raising a kid. I was raised with this fear, driving down Central Avenue, with my… Read more

By Cathryn McGill, NMBLC Founder & Director   “Show me a prison, show me a jail,   Show me a prisoner whose face has gone pale,   And I’ll show you a young man with so many reasons why,   And there but for… Read more

by Samantha Anne Carrillo, UpLift Chronicles Managing Editor Our September issue marks the first UpLift Chronicles that doesn’t feature the reporting of Shannon Yvonne Moreau. Moreau began volunteering with the New Mexico Black History Organizing Committee (NMBHOC) in 2011. Her… Read more

By Kristin Satterlee  Warrick Campbell has a dream. The father of two, inspired by his position as Youth Violence Prevention Coordinator at New Mexico Black Leadership Council (NMBLC), sees School-Based Violence Intervention Programs (SBVIP) as the beginning of “a vision… Read more

By Samantha Anne Carrillo  Violence, including youth gun violence, is a serious public health issue and a deservedly frequent topic of conversation, here in the International District, throughout the Albuquerque metro and greater New Mexico.   From familial and peer influences… Read more

By Kristin Satterlee Reports of a New Mexico “spike in juvenile crime” are everywhere. Albuquerque District Attorney (and candidate for governor) Sam Bregman has cited a 57% increase in juvenile gun crimes from 2022 to 2023. Recent high-profile cases have… Read more