Events
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...
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...
Afrosideral
Afrosideral, also known as Kumar Sublevao-Beat, is a Cuban artist established in Europe with a career of more than 20 years on and off the island. Deep lyricist, music producer, soundtrack composer and digital percussionist. This new proposal is the result of what...
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...
Mabiland
Mabiland is a ground-breaker in Colombia’s male-dominated Hip Hop and Urban Music scene: she is a woman, she is Black, she is queer and she brings together rap, R&B and neo soul in her music like no Colombian artist before her.Related Articles
El Individuo
El Individuo is one of Havana’s most celebrated rappers who lives in the space between “world music” and the prolific Cuban hip hop scene. He has been a part of international collaborations like Gilles Peterson’s Súbelo Cuba, while continuing to represent his city...
Keisha Monique
Keisha Monique is a Colombian actress and singer. Artista: Vivir quintanaAdaptación para Colombia: Natalia RojasRelated Articles
Betsayda Machado y la Parranda El Clavo
Internationally renowned singer Betsayda Machado presents a high-energy, salsa dancing concert with Afro-Venezuelan percussion and vocal ensemble La Parranda El Clavo.Related Articles
A Hot List of Our Favorite Afro-Latinx Celebs
En este sitio web muestran celebridades y sus logros. Hablan de promover sus identidades. This website shows celebrities and their achievements. They talk about promoting their identities.Related Articles
Yale Cultural Centers Co-Host Afro-Latinx Event
This website explains how Yale University had an event centered on Afro Latinidad. The event was titled, "Who Is Black? Afro-Latinx and the #BlackLivesMatter Movement."Related Articles
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
Afro-Latinx Winner Honors Mother in This Year’s Doodle for Google
The winner of the 2019 Doodle for Google for the “When I Grow Up, I hope…” theme was a proud Afro-Latina woman, Arantza Peña Popo. A real photograph in Popo's home inspired her illustration that she titled, “Once You Get It, Give It Back." It shows a portrait of her...
2021 Afrolatinx Festival
Este festival Afro-Latinx es un museo que te enseñará más sobre la cultura, el arte, el entretenimiento, etc de Afro-Latinx.Related Articles
10 Afro-Latinx Artists Doing Big Things in 2021
Este sitio web enfatiza en 10 artistas de Afro-Latinx que están haciendo grandes cosas. Por ejemplo, el artista Clotilde Jiménez está haciendo arte para expresar sus pensamientos y creencias. La representación dentro de la comunidad Afro-latinx es pequeña, teniendo...
The Nu LatAm Sound Ecuador – Episode 2 – The Rhythm of the Coast
In the 2nd episode of The Nu LatAm Sound Ecuador, ZZK Films continues on from the Andes mountains headed for the coast. 1st stop, Papá Roncón, legendary marimba player who is said to hold the secrets and mythologies of the instruments' arrival to Ecuador. Then off to...