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Dancer Moesha Perez is Competing in Lizzo’s Body Positive Dance Competition

Shayne Rodriguez Thompson
Moesha Perez, 24, has a bubbly personality that translates beautifully in her dancing which she’s been doing since she was 2 and the basis for her entry into reality television. The Bronx-born dancer is a competitor on Grammy-award-winning singer, Lizzo’s,...
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What It Means To Be a Black Latina in Higher Education

HipLatina
I have been asserting my blackness since I can remember. Growing up in the mountains of Puerto Rico, my curls —“pelo malo,”as friends called it—betrayed my family’s attempts to claim whiteness by invoking our Spanish great grandfather. Why would my...