NOTHING ABOUT US WITHOUT US IS A CCCADI DIGITAL SERIES, IN COLLABORATION WITH THE SCHOMBURG CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN BLACK CULTURE, WHERE WE EXPLORE AFRICAN DIASPORIC HISTORICAL EVENTS AND FIGURES. OUR STORIES, TOLD BY US.

History books and mainstream media have erased and excluded a lot of our community’s important leaders, movements and facts as they have attempted to tell us our stories. NAUWU takes control of our narrative!

In each episode our host, Julissa Contreras dives into a different theme, event, or figure, to educate and empower our African Diasporic community. NAUWU seeks to serve as a tool to affirm our community’s powerful identity. We must know where we came from to know where we are going, and we are more than what we’ve been told.

Our second episode highlights Afro-Puerto Rican historian, Harlem Renaissance leader, and community builder, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg. We’ll explore his contributions to both the Spanish and English-speaking African Diaspora, particularly in New York City during the early 1900s.

Episode 2 airs on October 28, 2022 at 7 pm (EST). You can watch on our Instagram and Youtube.