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Afro-Latino identity amongst our own people. Martinez’s clear-cut, “us against them” hatred feels so simplistic and lacking in nuance, it feels of a bygone era, like stuff out of a ’90s ...
CHICAGO – In decades past, it’s been a source of pain and stigma. However, today the phrase “Afro-Latino” is embraced by many multiracial men and women. Now, people are celebrating the ...
“The thing about people of color, Black people, and Latinos, it’s so much more of a spectrum. Also, I think a lot of Afro-Latino people or multiracial people don’t recognize certain ...
But for Afro-Latino students, with both African and Latino heritage, the topic of identity is not as cut-and-dry. “I walk on eggshells when it comes to my racial identity,” said Alani Rojas ...
It is the state’s first and only theater group focused on Afro-Latino performances, but federal funding cuts has them ...
But while food will be abundant, Saturday’s inaugural Afro-Latino Festival also aspires to go beyond the usual fun and games associated with this kind of cultural celebration. It wants to teach ...
"I'm Latino," Edwards answered. The director of the Strictly Street Salsa Studio and founder of the Afro-Latino Festival of Houston, he's a Panamanian-Jamaican immigrant. "I'm blacker than you are!" ...
The second annual Afro Latino Film Festival, organized by Waterbury’s Pa’lante Theater Company, has not only grown from two to five nights, it is now taking place in two locations. The ...
Afro-Latinos, a growing subgroup within the nation's large Latino population of 63 million, experience employment disparities that researchers say is evidence of anti-Black bias in the labor ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. CHICAGO – In decades past, it’s been ...