Global Awareness Series for the Greater Hartford Community

The Farmington Valley Links began their 27^th Sundays@4 (Sundays at Four) program series in February at the Mark Twain House and Museum with an exciting presentation from Capoeira Brasil Hartford. Sundays@4 was started 27 years ago by the Farmington Valley chapter of the Links, Incorporated with a mission to inspire, enhance and enrich the Greater Hartford community through the sharing of current trends and topics related to people of African descent around the globe.

On February 18^th, Sundays@4 will feature Quinnipiac professor, Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean who will talk on the influence of the US Democratic process on voting and elections in the African continent. Dr. Brown-Dean is also an award-winning political analyst, advisor, and commentator for numerous agencies and organizations including The New York Times, NPR, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, etc.

In addition to Dr. Brown-Dean on February 18^th, there will be programs on March 4 and March 11. On March 4^th, Dr. Gustave Lescoflaire of Bethesda Medical Mission will share the unique history of Haiti and Bethesda Medical Mission’s recent activities in Haiti through lecture, video and photographs. Bethesda Medical Mission Inc. is a humanitarian group of medical professionals and supporters united by a commitment to serve others. The series concludes on March 11^th with the program “The Crisis of Slavery and Migration in the 21^st Century: Voices of Women and Girls”.

Sundays@4 program is free and open to the public with easy parking at the Mark Twain House & Museum, 351 Farmington Avenue in Hartford, CT. All programs begin at 4pm.

The Links, Incorporated is an international, not-for-profit corporation, established in 1946. The membership consists of 12,000 professional women of color in the United States and the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. It is one of the nation’s oldest and largest volunteer service organizations of extraordinary women who are committed to enriching, sustaining and ensuring the culture and economic survival of African Americans and other persons of African ancestry.