Documentaries & Films
Negro: A Docu-Series About Latinx Identity
Started in 2010, by Dash Harris, Negro is a docu-series exploring identity, colonization, racism, and the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean and the color complex among Latin@s.Through candid interviews, the social manifestations and consequences of...
Afro-Tradition, Environmental Racism and Black Place-Making in Mexico
This video is a Q&A with filmmaker Ebony Bailey about her documentary "Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro-Tradition in the Heart of Mexico," followed by the panel discussion, “Environmental Racism, Gender, and Black Place-Making in Mexico's Costa Chica,” with Ebony...
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories
Cuban Roots/Bronx Stories highlights the historical journey of an Afro-Cuban-American family, from Jamaica, to Cuba, to the Bronx, revealing that the Cuban-American experience is more diverse, racially and ideologically, than we are often led to believe. Diana, Ruben,...
Black in Latin America
" Black In Latin America, examines how Africa and Europe came together to create the rich cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean. Black in Latin America is a four-part documentary on Haiti–Dominican Republic, Cuba Brazil, and Mexico–Peru. It is parto of a trilogy...
Jamaica and Tamarindo: Afro Tradition in the Heart of Mexico
The jamaica flower and tamarind are iconic ingredients in Mexico, but their history comes from a place much further away. In JAMAICA AND TAMARINDO: AFRO TRADITION IN THE HEART OF MEXICO, we meet five people to explore African heritage in Mexico City, an identity that...
Cimarrón Spirit: Afro-Dominican Maroon Culture
"In the Dominican Republic, as early as 1512, African slaves escaped from Spanish plantations and lived with the island's Taino Indians or on their own in mountainous jungles in the remote frontier land of Hispaniola. These people who were known as "cimarrones,"...
Profile: Sherly Tavárez
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Graciela Colorado talks to Sherly Tavárez, founder and CEO of Hause of Curls and a self-identified Afro-Latina. "Before, Afro-Latinx was never spoken about, not with my family not with my friends. It was not even a thing until...
Perfil: Keisha Monique Sánchez
En este episodio, Jhonatan Navarrete entrevista a Keisha Monique Sánchez, una joven colombiana que vive en Nueva York, en donde está iniciando su carrera musical junto con sus hermanas. In this episode, Jhonatan Navarrete interviews Keisha Monique Sánchez, a young...
Perfil: Scarlet Estrada
En este episodio de Radio Nepantla, Melody Soto entrevista a Scarlet Estrada, antropóloga, ensayista y conductora del pódcast “AfroChingonas” desde la Ciudad de México. “Yo vengo de una familia que no se autoascribe como afromexicana y esto pues se debe al contexto en...
Profile: Nicole Favors
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Diana Romero talks to Nicole Favors, whose father is from Marion, Ohio, and her mother is from Romita, Guanajuato. Favors grew up in North Hollywood. "I automatically then just started to kind of strip away from my Mexican background...
Profile: Demetrius Dante Taylor Sánchez Jr.
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Diana Romero interviews Demetrius Dante Taylor Sánchez Jr. Demetrius is the middle child with two sisters. His father’s family migrated to Las Vegas from Mississippi. His mother was born in Piedras Negras, Coahuila Mexico, and...
Panel: Voicing Afro-Latinx Histories & Identities
Este video demuestra un panel que habla sobre sus identidades e historias sobre la Afro Latinidad. This video demonstrates a panel that talks about their identities and histories about Afro Latinidad.Related Articles
Profile: Amaya Taylor
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Yasmine Cárdenas talks to Amaya Taylor, a CSUN student majoring in child and adolescent development who grew up in Los Angeles’s South Bay. "Growing up music was huge. I listened to different genres from different places. So my dad...
Profile: Jordan Henry
In this episode of Radio Nepanlta, Elizabeth Campos talks to Jordan Henry, a Cal State Northridge undergrad, micro-influencer, aspiring journalist, and more. She attributes a lot of her goals to her experience as a mixed-race woman. In developing her cultural identity...
Profile: Pamely Gómez
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Jazmin Navarrete talks to Pamely Alejandra Gómez, a 25-year-old Afro-Latina born and raised in Yonkers, New York to Dominican parents. "I feel like being an Afro-Latina there is a lot of stuff that people don’t know. I feel like it’s...
Profile: Yannell Serrano
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Kimberly Linares talks to Yannell Serrano, a student from North Carolina State University, about her childhood experiences and the discrimination she’s received because of the color of her skin and her social-economic background. "My...
Profile: Shania Toriquez
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Yesenia Delgado talks to Shania Toriquez, who was born very light skin, and for her, it was an everyday struggle to know who she really was because people would deny her African roots. "I actually don’t speak Spanish. So, when I...
Profile: Millie del Oro
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Tracy Mejía talks to Millie del Oro, who knows that her identity is a mixture of two races and two cultures: Black and Mexican. After moving to Arkansas, she realized there was a lot for her to learn to fit in as her identity was...
Profile: Amanda Pericles
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Cynthia González talks to Amanda Pericles about her life and how she advocates for Afro-Latinidad on social media. "I had big hair that everyone knew about. I had long big hair that you know would sit on top of my head. So then it...
Profile: Alexis Amezcua
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Liliana Ramírez talks to Alexis Amezcua, a senior at Cal State University Northridge, about how her African-American and Mexican roots connect her to each culture.. "When I do it (identify) around certain people, they’re like no...
Profile: Sean Hill
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Kimberly García talks to poet, actor, and humanitarian Sean Hill, who was born and raised in Los Angeles, and whose parents are from Bogotá, Colombia, and Harlem in New York City. "I don’t think I fully embraced my hair until college...
Profile: Arryana Jackson
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Bryan Arévalo talks to Arryana “Arry” Jackson, an Afro-Latinx student from California State University, Northridge (CSUN) who spoke about challenges that stemmed from her appearance and feelings of exclusion as Jackson is both Black...
Profile: Devin Nazar Cager
In this episode of Radio Nepantla, Camille Lehmann interviews Devin Nazar Cager about growing up in the San Fernando Valley with a Salvadoran mother and not having his father nor his father’s African American culture present. "It was always like, you’re not Black. You...
Profile: Natasha Carrizosa
In this episode, Melody Soto talks to award-winning poet and self-described MexiAfricana Natasha Carrizosa. "Willie Perdomo, he had this poem called Nigger Reecan Blues in this book called Where a Nickel Costs a Dime. And when I read that book, I was like: ‘Wow, I...
Perfil: Jesús Noyola Rodríguez
En este episodio de Radio Nepantla, Luis Mirón entrevistó a Jesús Noyola Rodríguez, un poeta, escritor y locutor de radio con raíces afrodescendientes por parte de su padre y raíces indígenas por parte de su madre. Don Jesús, como se le conoce en la comunidad, es...
Hella Black Mexican
#HellaBlackMexican is a cartoon series that reflects the real-life experience of the creator, Ehcrama Marche. It follows the life of a young Mexican whose life changes when she finds out she is Black.Related Articles
Black and Latino and Proud
Posted by Netflix on YouTube, this video is of actress and author La La Anthony giving a historical overview of Afrolatinidad. She also speaks about the definition of race, ethnicity, and culture while celebrating the history of the Afro-Latinx diaspora.Related...
What Afro-Latinos Want You To Know
Posted by Pero Like on YouTube. The video talks about how race is perceived within the Latinx community. It also talks about difficult themes as well as talks about racist comments the interviewees have received. It shows and tells people’s stories while educating...
Heroes of Color: Episode 02
Animator David Heredia dedicated the second episode of his Heroes of Color web series to Yanga, a small town in the foothills of Mexico’s Gulf coast, Yanga was the location where the importation of slave labor drove the production of sugar cane throughout the colonial...
Stop
Posted on YouTube by Iris. This video was created by African American and Puerto Rican filmmaker Reinaldo Marcus Green. This video was inspired by the death of Trayvon Martin. Green told the magazine Remezcla that “Stop was born out of these tragic events. It was made...
What Are You? Anayansi Prado
"What Are You?" explores themes of family diversity and internalized racism in Latin American culture through filmmaker Anayansi Prado’s journey to her home country of Panama with her estranged father in search of their African ancestors. The unexpected information...
#BlackLatinxHistory Highlights Afro-Latinos Who Changed History
En este sitio web, muestran una variedad de escenarios que explican a los afrolatinos y el impacto y cambio que han hecho en el mundo. This shows a variety of scenarios that explain Afro-Latinxs as well as the impact and change they have done to the world.Related...
Nana
Leidy, Fina and Clara leave their children in distant towns to be raised by relatives while they move away to care for somebody else’s child. Going back and forth between urban and rural scenarios, ‘Nana’ goes deep into the conflicts faced by live-in nannies. In a...
On Our Land: Being Garifuna in Honduras
This documentary is based on the Indigenous Garifuna culture located in Honduras. The story includes the history, culture, social, and transnational struggles of this ethnic group in the Central American country. Honorable Mention, Bronze Lens Film Festival...
Life Between Borders: Black Migrants in Mexico
In this short documentary, we meet Haitians stuck at the border as well as Africans in Mexico City to explore Black migration and identity in Mexico. Director: Ebony Marie BaileyWriter: Ebony Marie BaileyRelated Articles
Afro-Latinx Revolution: Puerto Rico
This 36-minute documentary has been out since December 2020 and talks about Afro-Latinos in Puerto Rico. It goes over many topics such as culture, history, government, the LGBTQ+ community, music, dance, family and more. This documentary is also in English and...
Afro Argentines
This documentary talks about the denial of being of Indian or African descent in Argentina. It also talks about the immigration history of Africans to Argentina (who were slaves upon arrival). In addition, it talks about the denial of Afro-Latino people in the country...