Afro Latinx Archives

17 Afro-Latinx Films to Watch for Black History Month

Sofía AguilarFebruary 28, 2023March 3, 2023

by Sofía AguilarFebruary 28, 2023March 3, 202301191

It’s Black History Month, a time when we celebrate the important Black changemakers, icons, leaders, and more throughout history and in the present day. We should be listening to Black storytellers this month and every month, and films are a...

Family

Afro-Latina Doulas are Fighting for ‘Birth Justice’ Amid Growing Black Maternal Health Crisis

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 22, 2023February 22, 2023

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 22, 2023February 22, 202302114

The thing about Black History Month, is that it’s rendered completely useless if we don’t use it to create a better Black future. At the most foundational level, that should start with better Black maternal care. The Black maternal mortality...

Culture

Afro-Dominican Baker Paola Velez Has Raised Millions With Bakers Against Racism Initiative

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 25, 2022February 25, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 25, 2022February 25, 202204681

It’s universally known that food is one way to unite people and one first-generation Afro-Latina pastry chef decided that she’d use baked goods in the fight for racial justice. With only a dream and zero dollars, Paola Velez launched the...

Culture

10 Afro-Latina Writers Whose Work You Need to Read

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 10, 2022February 11, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 10, 2022February 11, 202206481

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’re creating stories...

Culture

10 Reasons Latinxs Should Celebrate Black History Month

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 7, 2022February 7, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 7, 2022February 7, 202204969

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...

Culture

10 Content Creators Using Their Platforms to Educate on Afro-Latinidad

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonDecember 23, 2021January 4, 2022

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonDecember 23, 2021January 4, 202205533

Afro-Latinidad is a topic that seems to invoke a lot of emotion in people, and draw out just as many opinions on what it means to be Black, what it means to be Latinx and what it means to Black...

News and Entertainment

Meet the Afro-Latino Director of ‘King Richard’ Reinaldo Marcus Green

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonNovember 19, 2021November 19, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonNovember 19, 2021November 19, 202105312

The much buzzed about film King Richard starring Will Smith, Jon Bernthal and Tony Goldwyn premieres on today on HBO Max and in theaters about the father and coach of famed tennis players Venus and Serena Williams. It marks a...

Culture

‘Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed’ is a Powerful Anthology of Diverse Latinx Voices

Virginia IsaadNovember 4, 2021February 28, 2022

by Virginia IsaadNovember 4, 2021February 28, 202208279

Latinx stories aren’t often represented in the mostly white publishing industry so the newly-released anthology Wild Tongues Can’t Be Tamed, edited by Saraciea J. Fennell, who is of Black, Indigenous, and Honduran woman, is a powerful book simply by existing....

Culture News and Entertainment

Amara La Negra & Karamo Brown Talk Colorism in the Latinx Community on ‘RTT: The Estefans’

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonOctober 15, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonOctober 15, 202104579

The latest episode of Red Table Talk: The Estefans is tackling colorism in the Latinx community, and it gets deep. The Estefans talked to Afro-Latinx singer and Dominican TV personality Amara La Negra and Queer Eye‘s Karamo Brown, who is...

Lifestyle

Afro-Latina Fitness Trainer Massy Arias is Changing Lives with Her Honest and Educational Approach

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonSeptember 30, 2021February 23, 2023

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonSeptember 30, 2021February 23, 2023022274

Celebrity fitness trainer Massy Arias has been slowly making changes on the fitness scene for the past decade. She’s steadfastly working to help her clients and social media followers achieve long-term fitness and wellness by teaching them how to live...

News and Entertainment

Panamanian-American Filmmaker Janicza Bravo Debuts Film Based on Viral Twitter Thread

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJune 30, 2021June 30, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJune 30, 2021June 30, 202105357

If you’ve scrolled through Twitter you’ve likely seen people talking about Zola, the film out today by Panamanian-American filmmaker Janicza Bravo. The film stars Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom‘s Taylour Paige as “Zola” and American Honey’s Riley Keough as “Stefani” and...

Culture

Afro-Boricua Author Jaquira Díaz Talks Queerness, Pride and Representation

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJune 29, 2021June 29, 2021

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonJune 29, 2021June 29, 202105102

It’s been a busy couple of years for Puerto Rican author Jaquira Díaz since publishing her critically acclaimed memoir Ordinary Girls in 2019. She’s gotten married, lived through a pandemic, continued work on her first novel and embarked on several...