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10 Ways I’m Teaching My Kids About Race and Color

shayneFebruary 26, 2020

by shayneFebruary 26, 20200319

I, fortunately, grew up surrounded by brown people. My mother comes from a long line of Afro-Latinos from Puerto Rico and because I mostly grew up around her side of the family — which included her African-American stepfather and...

Lifestyle

Why POC Need to Take More Naps For Social Justice

Johanna FerreiraJanuary 13, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJanuary 13, 20200128

No part of social justice work in 2020 is a trend. Rather, it is a sustained effort to affect long-term structural change in the fabric of a society that subsists on antiquated and oppressive systems. Still, as we start off...

News and Entertainment

Fat Joe: “Some Latinos Identify with Black Culture More Than Black People”

Araceli CruzSeptember 24, 2019September 24, 2019

by Araceli CruzSeptember 24, 2019September 24, 20190114

When celebrities get real about racial issues, identity, and politics, we love it. We want to know where they stand on important matters in the world. Some people might not want celebrities to get too political ⁠— but in today’s...

Culture

How to Tell the Difference Between Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality

Johanna FerreiraApril 9, 2019

by Johanna FerreiraApril 9, 20190484

Lately, non-white people have been spending a lot of time learning (or at least hearing about) the impact of their whiteness on the rest of the world. And admittedly, people of color have also begun to look more deeply at...

News and Entertainment

Why We Can’t Ignore Jazmine Barnes’ Death

HipLatinaJanuary 3, 2019April 11, 2019

by HipLatinaJanuary 3, 2019April 11, 2019045

It’s been a sleepy start to the new year. As early as Wednesday morning, memes and tweets began popping up expressing a collective societal exasperation with the thought of going back to work after a long stretch of holiday bingeing....

Culture

I’m Fed Up With People Calling Me ‘Half-Latina’

Irina GonzalezJanuary 1, 2019January 1, 2019

by Irina GonzalezJanuary 1, 2019January 1, 20190501

[article_ad_lb] I was born in Moscow, Russia, to a Russian mom and Cuban dad. After my family immigrated to the U.S. and settled in Miami, my life changed dramatically. Eventually, we moved to the southwest coast of Florida and,...

Beauty

White Girls Are Pretending to Be Women of Color on Instagram & We Need to Call Them Out

HipLatinaNovember 16, 2018April 28, 2020

by HipLatinaNovember 16, 2018April 28, 202001394

It’s about time our society has a nice, long discussion about race. It’s a complex topic with tons of entry points but right now I’d like to talk about what it means to be Black. Specifically, we need to take a...

Family

Why Some Latinas are Reclaiming the Term “Mulatta”

Johanna FerreiraAugust 11, 2018April 11, 2019

by Johanna FerreiraAugust 11, 2018April 11, 20190341

In the states, the term mulatto comes with a lot of negative connotations. If said loudly in public, it would most likely make people cringe. But in Latin America, the term isn’t met with as much backlash. Though the word...

Lifestyle

What Does It Mean to Identify As Garifuna?

HipLatinaAugust 4, 2018April 11, 2019

by HipLatinaAugust 4, 2018April 11, 20190303

I vaguely remember one of my first trips to my parents’ homeland of Honduras. No more than six years old, the two-week trip was filled with family, daily visits to the beach—just steps away from our house—and lots of food....

News and Entertainment

Zoe Saldana on How Being Afro-Latina Hindered Her From Landing Lead Roles

HipLatinaApril 18, 2018April 11, 2019

by HipLatinaApril 18, 2018April 11, 20191394

[article_ad_lb] Zoe Saldana has been opening up a lot these days about some of the BS she’s experienced in the film industry. Earlier this month, she got real about the sexism she endured shooting her first major film as pirate...

Culture

175,000 Starbucks Employees Will Undergo Racial-Bias Training

Araceli CruzApril 18, 2018April 18, 2018

by Araceli CruzApril 18, 2018April 18, 20181211

Starbucks is attempting to right a major wrong. On May 29, 8,000 Starbucks establishments will close in the country in order for roughly 175,000 employees to undergo racial bias training in light of the two black men that were arrested for...

News and Entertainment

Cardi B & Amara La Negra are Helping Create Black and Brown Unity Through Hip-Hop

HipLatinaFebruary 21, 2018April 11, 2019

by HipLatinaFebruary 21, 2018April 11, 20191148

It seems that music, specifically hip-hop right now, is ready to embrace and celebrate both Black and Brown cultures equally. Back in his 2011 hit “The Motto,” Drake shouted out Latinas and bachata super group Aventura with his infamous: “Spanish...

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