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							<title>17 Must-Watch Afro-Latinx Documentaries</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[From "The Invisible Color" to "Negro", here are 17 Afro-Latinx documentaries you need to watch.]]></description>
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							<title>Brazil Faces Calls for Reparations for Role in Slave Trade</title>
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															<description><![CDATA[The Bank of Brazil is being asked to offer reparations for their role in the slave trade.]]></description>
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							<title>17 Books to Understand the Black History of Latin America</title>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2023 20:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Black History Month coverage doesn&#8217;t always include Afro-Latinidad but that history (both in the U.S. and Latin America) is both important and deserving of attention. We may think we know the history of Latin America, or at least the specific countries we come from, but thanks to colonization and anti-Blackness, that history is often rewritten.]]></description>
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							<title>14 Books to Read to Better Understand Our Latin History</title>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2022 22:49:56 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Every year from September 15 to October 15, Latinx Heritage Month is a time for the entire community to celebrate and come together from all our different nations, heritages, cultures, and most importantly, our histories. In school, many of us were not taught about the history of Latin America or the U.S. through a Latinx]]></description>
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							<title>10 Reasons Latinxs Should Celebrate Black History Month</title>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2022 17:01:58 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Many of us grew up not knowing our full history especially that of our homeland and the diasporas and pre-colonization history. We identified as Latino—or Puerto Rican or Mexican or Dominican, etc. without fully grasping the evolution of those identities. We swapped ethnicity and culture for race, and didn&#8217;t acknowledge being Black, or white either. In]]></description>
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							<title>Everything You Should Know About Juneteenth &#038; Why It&#8217;s Important</title>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 18 Jun 2021 14:35:53 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The word &#8220;Juneteenth&#8221; is one that many of us had never even heard until a few years ago or even more just this year, but it&#8217;s one that every American and every person living in America should be familiar with. Celebrated on June 19th of every year, it commemorates the day the last slaves in]]></description>
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							<title>The Significance of How Puerto Rico Honors Emancipation Day</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 15:18:30 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Puerto Rico&#8217;s Emancipation Day which is celebrated on March 22 each year, is notable for a few reasons. The first thing that comes to mind though is that it&#8217;s celebrated at all. Emancipation Day in Puerto Rico is the commemoration of the day in 1873 when slavery was abolished on the island which was at]]></description>
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							<title>Bomba &#038; Plena Music Are Giving A New Voice to Afro-Latinx Communities</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2021 03:30:26 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[The uniquely Puerto Rican musical styles of bomba and plena are deeply rooted in the island&#8217;s African roots. When most Boricuas hear the deep drum beats of bomba and plena, we can&#8217;t help but move our bodies. When we hear the sound of the barilles or panderos, our hips sway and our shoulders shake and]]></description>
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							<title>Why Latinx Moms Need to Know the Truth About Black History in America</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Mon, 22 Feb 2021 16:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[As a Latina mom who was born and raised in the United States and is now raising children in the same racism-plagued country, my eyes are open. They haven&#8217;t always been, at least not completely, though something was always there in the back of my mind or perhaps my heart. Now though, it&#8217;s hard to]]></description>
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							<title>10 Resources to Help You Teach Your Kids About Black History</title>
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							<dc:creator><![CDATA[Shayne Rodriguez Thompson]]></dc:creator>
							<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2021 23:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
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															<description><![CDATA[Most parents recognize the importance of Black History Month and understand why we should be putting in the extra effort to teach our kids more about historic Black figures as well as about the struggles, perspectives, accomplishments,  advancements and contributions of Black Americans—including Afro-Latinx individuals—of the past as well as of today, but it honestly]]></description>
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