Haiti Featured in 2018 Global Awareness Series

The Farmington Valley Links began their 27^th Sundays@4 (Sundays at Four) program series in February at the Mark Twain House and Museum. 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. During the month of February, the audience was entertained as well as challenged with presentations from Capoeira Brasil Hartford and Quinnipiac professor, Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean.

Capoeira Brasil Hartford introduced Capoeira to the Sundays@4 audience. Capoeira is an Afro-Brazilian art form of self-defense that was developed by formerly enslaved Africans to survive in the Amazonian rain forest in Brazil and that combines elements of martial arts, music and dance. Capoeira Brasil Hartford led by Professor Tuzinho entertained the audience by teaching and showing how the Capoeira survival technique evolved into the competitive art form.

Dr. Khalilah Brown-Dean spoke 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.

This Sunday 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.

Sundays@4 programs are 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.