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Global Awareness Series for the Greater Hartford Community
The Links' Global Awareness Series consists of thought provoking programs with a mission to inspire, enhance and enrich Greater Hartford
The Farmington Valley Links are set to begin their global awareness series on Sunday, February 17th at St. John’s Episcopal Church in West Hartford, CT. Global LINKages (previously named Sundays@4) was started 28 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.
February 17th program will explore Vodou in Haiti. Dr. Leslie Desmangles, Professor Emeritus of Trinity College, will present “Saints in the Mirror” which reviews the current Vodou religious beliefs in Haiti and the historical process by which the saints of the Catholic church were reinterpreted in terms of West African gods.
In addition to the program on February 17th, there will be programs on Sundays, March 3rd and March 10th. The March 3rd program commemorates the arrival of the first Africans to Colonial America which occurred exactly 400 years ago in 1619. “Upon These Shores” will feature Dr. Benjamin Foster Jr. who will discuss the significance of mandating this history to be included into the curricula of CT schools and how its implementation into the curricula will build public knowledge about the contributions, status, and history of our nation’s African descendants.
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The March 10th program honors women’s health month with “Mothering while Black: A Life-or-Death Crisis”. The audience will have the opportunity to interact with a panel of physicians who will discuss the reproductive health disparity of black women around the globe.
The Global LINKages is free and open to the public with easy parking at the St. John’s Episcopal Church at 679 Farmington Ave in West Hartford, CT. All programs begin at 2pm.
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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.
