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Aug 3, 20230 min read


With Namor, Wakanda Forever Does What Latine Media Will Not
Tenoch Huerta Mejía is soaring. Since starring in the superhero epic Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, the Mexican actor has been trending...
Aug 3, 20233 min read


How The Caste System Shaped Racial Inequality in Latin America
Collaboration with R29 Somos, edited by Raquel Reichard What is Latin America's colonial caste system? In colonial Latin America, Spanish...
Apr 7, 20222 min read


Opinion: J Balvin is the new face of an old tradition: Black erasure in music
J Balvin has been named the Afro-Latino Artist of the Year. If you are confused by that sentence, you haven’t been paying attention to...
Feb 8, 20221 min read


Opinion: ‘In the Heights’ is just more of the same whitewashed Hollywood
Julissa Contreras is a Dominican writer, poet, actor and creator of the “Ladies Who Bronché” podcast. Dash Harris Machado is co-founder...
Jun 21, 20213 min read


No, I'm Not a 'Proud Latina'
Dash Harris Machado is the co-founder of AfroLatino Travel, an organization that facilitates trips focused on centering Latin America’s...
Sep 29, 20202 min read


The Afro-Peruvian Women Leading the Black Movement in South America
Get to know five women who have become the leading voices of the Afro-Peruvian movement. The image of a smiling Black woman, complete...
Jul 24, 20202 min read


African Spirituality Does Not Assimilate
“Folks will come to understand that traditional African spiritual thought has been as central to our radical movements as it is generally...
Jul 18, 20202 min read


Activists Across Latin America Are Marching in Solidarity With 'Black Lives Matter' Protests in the
From Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico, here's how Afro-Latino activists are uniting in...
Jun 15, 20201 min read


A Husband is Not Enough
Immigration is an expensive, humiliating, idle, process of waiting in vain. Dehumanizes you by demanding perfection on the first attempt....
Feb 18, 20202 min read


A DIFFERENT KIND OF CASTE: Origins of the Color Complex in Latin America
50 Shades of Black - The Latin American Casta system “Casta” is Spanish for caste and the “casta paintings” existed in colonial Latin...
Sep 18, 20122 min read
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