On this page you find listed events and activities scheduled for the next couple of months.  We'll update this page frequently. 

 BGSG of Denver meets the fourth Saturday of each month, August and December.  Meetings are held at the Blair-Caldwell African American, 2401 Welton Street, Denver, CO 80205 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m..  A special writing class usually follows form 12:30 p.m. until 1:30 p.m.  The BGSG award-winning newsletter, "Black Tracks is published four times a year: January, April, July and October.

Prospective members are welcome to learn more about us by attending an event.

November 26, 2011 Regular monthly meeting  Program: BGSG writing group presentation

December 2011 No meeting  Happy Holidays 

January 28, 2012   Regular monthly meeting  Program: Follow up from BGSG 2011 Heritage Festival

February 25, 2012 Regular monthly meeting  Program: Presentation by William M King, Professor of Afroamerican Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder, about his work on a history of Denver's Black community from its beginning in 1885 to 2000.

William M King, whose doctorate in interdisciplinary social science from Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, is currently Professor of Afroamerican Studies in the Department of Ethnic Studies, the University of Colorado at Boulder where he has taught since 1972.  He is the author of two bookds, Going to Meet a Man: Denver's Last Legal Public Execution, 27 July 1886 and How to Write Research Papers: A Guide for the Insecure, and numerous book chapters, articles, essays, reviews, reports and materials that have appeared in a wide variety of scholarly and popular media.  He is currently working on a history of Denver's Black community while offering historically oriented topical coureses on the Afroamerican experience in the urban setting, schooling and education, science, technology and society, issues of citizenship, war and peace.  He is also working on a history of the Department of Ethnic Studies (and its predecessor groups) of which he has been a member since his arrival on campus. A member of the graduate faculty of The University of Colorado since 1974, he has supervised or served as a committee member for persons pursuing masters thesis and doctoral dissertations in history, social sciences and education.