Guest Speakers & Lectures
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...
Guest Lecture: Blaxican Borderlands with Dr. Rebecca Romo
Dr, Rebecca Romo, professor of sociology at Santa Monica College visited CSUN. She did a short presentation titled "Blaxican Borderlands," and then she answered questions from the group. February 19, 2021Related Articles
Guest Speaker: Afro-Latinx Identity with Edlin Veras
Doctoral student Edlin Veras speaks with CSUN students about the study he and his mentor, Dr. Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, conducted on the dissonance faced by Afro-Latinx people. Their study is titled, “Out of the Shadows, Into the Dark: Ethnoracial Dissonance and...
Slave Refugees in the U.S.- Mexico Borderlands
Lunch Plática with Dr. Manuel Galván. Starting in the early seventeenth century, Africans enslaved in the English North American colonies found opportunities for a less oppressive existence in Spanish Florida, where the Spanish established alliances with indigenous...
NAHJ: Addressing Anti-Blackness & Anti-Indigenous Racism in the Latinx Community
The National Association of Hispanic Journalists held its virtual conference over the summer that included conversations, events, networking and more. In this replay, speakers Indhira Suero Acosta, Juan Carlos Lopez and Ecleen Luzmila Caraballo address anti-Blackness...
Miriam Jiménez Román, Afro-Latinx activist, dies at 69
Late Miriam Jiménez Román was a major figure in the current Afro-Latinx studies movement. This article explains what she did in her lifetime as well as what she worked on with her late husband, Juan Flores.Related Articles
Entertainment
SYZYGY: The BLK Light Mixtape
SYZYGY: The BLK Light Mixtape, a CSUN digital-theatre production that premiered on April 29, 2021. CSUN Theatre Professor Douglas Kaback co-directed a new theater work that could address institutionalized racism and police brutality in a contemporary way, and he...
Afro-Latina Expresses the beauty in diversity
Jeje Lafontant is an Afro-Latina from Los Angeles, California. She is proud of her Puerto Rican and Haitian roots that inspire her work as a digital content creator. Jeje expresses borders as boundaries she has placed on her life out of fear of what people would...
7 Afro-Latino Musicians Inspiring the World in 2018
En esta página por TheCultureTrip.com destaca los artistas afrolatinos que hicieron un gran impacto en el año 2018. Muchos de ellos siguen en la punta de sus carreras musicales. El punto de este articulo es seguir es mostrar el impacto que están haciendo estos...
7 Afro-Latina Musicians You Need to Know by Hiplatina.com
Esta página web habla de mujeres que se consideran afrolatinas y están en la industria de la música. Muchas de ellas son conocidas pero otras no y si podemos darle más relevancia al trabajo de ellas, podemos seguir cumpliendo la meta de este proyecto el cual es darle...
Se Armo Kokoa
Agrupación de rap afrofeminista, conformada por fabik, euge, valencia y viki style con dj mats en las bandejas. El rap contestatario y reivindicativo, une a estas mcs para transmitir mediante sus letras un mensaje desde la negritud, el feminismo y el activismo dentro...
La Tribu de Abrante
La Tribu de Abrante are a 12-piece orchestra from Puerto Rico. Their sound melds traditional bomba and plena melodies and with salsa, Latin jazz, funk, reggaeton, and urban pop. Founded and led by singer, songwriter, and chief arranger Hiram Abrante, the band’s sound...