ACEs Up Your Sleeve Understanding the Impact of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Individual and Community Health Open Lecture and Roundtable Discussion! Thursday, April 12, 2018 9am-12-pm UNH Durham Campus - Memorial Union Building, Room 158 Registration is required: https://iod.unh.edu/event/aces-your-sleeve Childhood trauma has a lasting impact on both our emotional and physical health. This interactive training will feature research […]

The Community Engagement Academy is an interactive three-day Academy led by experts from the University of New Hampshire and the University of Maine. Designed for practitioners and community volunteers, the Academy takes place in three communities in different stages of downtown revitalization. Participants will learn from local speakers about their community engagement efforts. The Academy […]

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Ten Refugees. Five Storytellers. One Night. The Story of Us. The Stories you do not know. A Free Event Everyday the media floods our lives with news stories about the refugee crisis. Often times, the experiences of the people living in the throes of it are silenced by design. Not anymore. We are refocusing the […]

How could a community with good intentions be home to discrimination and racism? How does a state like New Hampshire that is mostly white fit into the national narrative of racial strife, now and in our past? What do we know about race? Through April 2018, residents of Madbury, Lee, and Durham will have the […]

LET’S CELEBRATE CULTURE! MCC Cultural Night is Tuesday April 17th from 4pm-7pm in the Multi-purpose room  (Gym). There will be a selection of international foods made by our own MCC students, faculty and staff along with a diverse music selection and cultural dance routines. All are welcome to join the festivities (open to the public) We are […]

Hiphop culture grew out of the South Bronx in the 1970s and 1980s when young people of color combined their genius with available materials to produce the four original elements of hiphop: deejaying, graffiti art, breakdancing, and rapping. Since then, a confluence of young Blacks, American Indians, and Latino/as have used hiphop to reimagine everyday […]

The foundation of Western civilization rests on three monotheistic faiths - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The interaction between and among these systems of belief continues to impact events in daily life and politics on the world stage. Following an outline of Islamic beliefs and practices by Charles Kennedy, discussion turns to how Islam is practiced […]