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							<title>Afro-Latina Writer Natalie Guerrero Centers Ambition &#038; Grief in Debut Novel</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[ Natalie Guerrero shares her writing journey for her debut novel "My Train Leaves at Three".  ]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jun 2024 15:27:05 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[I wrote the stories I needed as a kid, I wrote the stories I felt my daughter Isabella needed and five years later, it all paid off. ]]></description>
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							<title>Natasha S. Alford&#8217;s Debut Memoir Explores Afro-Latinidad and Belonging</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Feb 2024 17:32:33 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Afro-Latina journalist Natasha S. Alford discusses her new memoir 'American Negra.']]></description>
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							<title>Lorraine Avila&#8217;s Debut Novel Explores Brujería, Afro-Latina Girlhood, &#038; Community</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 26 May 2023 22:35:08 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Afro-Latinx stories remain underrepresented and underappreciated in the Latinx community, the publishing industry, and beyond. Bronx-based Afro-Dominican writer Lorraine Avila might know this better than many. Not only is she unafraid to call out anti-Blackness in Latinidad, but also to place a Black girl front and center as she does in her debut young adult novel.]]></description>
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							<title>Digame: Saraciea J. Fennell is Amplifying Afro-Latinx Voices in Literature</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2022 00:39:49 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Digame is a monthly series featuring prominent Latinx leaders, activists, entrepreneurs, and public figures uplifting the community and making a difference. Saraciea J. Fennell is a Black Honduran writer and the founder of The Bronx is Reading, an organization that promotes reading for all ages and hosts book events including Bronx Book Festival &#8211; the largest]]></description>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2022 17:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[We love to celebrate Latinx and Afro-Latinx literature every single day, all year long. Latinxs have long been severely under-represented in the literary world, but in more recent years, many Latinx authors are coming to the forefront. They&#8217;re creating stories that both speak to our experiences and depict us simply going through the ups-and-downs of]]></description>
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																		<media:title>Cleyvis Natera Aya de Leon Mia Sosa Afro-Latinx authors</media:title>
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							<title>Ariana Brown&#8217;s Poetry Collection Explores Anti-Blackness in Latinx Culture</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Virginia Isaad]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2020 22:18:23 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Ariana Brown believes that there is an audience for every poem and her latest chapbook, Sana Sana speaks to the queer community, Mexican Americans, and the Black community — all extensions of who she is. Brown, 26, is a Black Mexican American poet who has been writing and performing poetry for a decade, using it]]></description>
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							<title>Elizabeth Acevedo Features Afro-Dominican Fierceness in New Book Art</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 19:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Elizabeth Acevedo is a powerful writer and her books are masterfully done. Part of why readers gravitate to Acevedo is because she makes us feel seen and her latest book cover once again beautifully represents Afro-Latinidad. The Afro-Dominican writer just revealed the cover for her upcoming book Clap When You Land featuring two curly-haired sisters Afro-Dominican]]></description>
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							<title>Elizabeth Acevedo Centers Cuisine and Culture in ‘With the Fire On High’</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Janel Martinez]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2019 20:02:29 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Dominican-American poet and author Elizabeth Acevedo is bringing Afro-Latinx narratives to the publishing world. The Afro-Latina, whose debut novel, The Poet X, won the National Book Award for Young People&#8217;s Literature and the Printz Award for Best Young Adult Novel last year, among others, tackles topics through the lens of Latina women and girls —]]></description>
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