Interviews
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...
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...
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...