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Sesame Street Adds Two Black Muppets to Teach About Race

Virginia IsaadMarch 26, 2021March 26, 2021

by Virginia IsaadMarch 26, 2021March 26, 202103850

The Black Lives Matter protests during the summer of 2020 was the impetus for changes across industries as more people began to talk openly and honestly about race in America. Now we’re seeing the positive changes as a result of...

Culture

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

Johanna FerreiraJune 22, 2020August 10, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJune 22, 2020August 10, 2020014541

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...

Family

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

Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 26, 2020July 23, 2020

by Shayne Rodriguez ThompsonFebruary 26, 2020July 23, 202003918

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...

Lifestyle

Why POC Need to Take More Naps For Social Justice

Johanna FerreiraJanuary 13, 2020July 18, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraJanuary 13, 2020July 18, 202002288

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

Why We Can’t Ignore Jazmine Barnes’ Death

HipLatinaJanuary 3, 2019August 6, 2020

by HipLatinaJanuary 3, 2019August 6, 20200780

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, 2019August 19, 2020

by Irina GonzalezJanuary 1, 2019August 19, 202008185

[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, 2018August 26, 2020

by HipLatinaNovember 16, 2018August 26, 2020018626

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, 2018November 9, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraAugust 11, 2018November 9, 202007421

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?

janelmartinezAugust 4, 2018September 11, 2020

by janelmartinezAugust 4, 2018September 11, 202003204

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

Johanna FerreiraApril 18, 2018October 14, 2020

by Johanna FerreiraApril 18, 2018October 14, 202015984

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 Anamaria...

Culture

175,000 Starbucks Employees Will Undergo Racial-Bias Training

Araceli CruzApril 18, 2018October 14, 2020

by Araceli CruzApril 18, 2018October 14, 202011977

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

Nena LezamaFebruary 21, 2018January 30, 2022

by Nena LezamaFebruary 21, 2018January 30, 202211851

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...