Mini docuseries highlighting the historical presence, contributions, and cultural expressions of Afro-Latinos in California, featuring personal narratives, historical insights, and artistic expressions.
Mini docuseries highlighting the historical presence, contributions, and cultural expressions of Afro-Latinos in California, featuring personal narratives, historical insights, and artistic expressions.
Mini docuseries highlighting the historical presence, contributions, and cultural expressions of Afro-Latinos in California, featuring personal narratives, historical insights, and artistic expressions.
Obatala is an Afro-Mexican dance troop that travels and performs throughout southern Mexico. The dancers learned the steps by watching YouTube videos. Through their performances, they express their pride in their African heritage and stay connected to their roots.
Witness the unstoppable joy of dancing bomba with sisters Mar and María Cruz. Visit some of the communities where bomba dancing is most vibrant, from the Santurce area of San Juan, to Loíza, the bastion of Afro Puerto Rican culture across the Rio Grande.
Just Play continues our travels creating cross-cultural music collaborations around the world. In this series, Just Play is now in Lima, Peru for our documentary and upcoming album ‘The Warrior Women of Afro-Peruvian Music’ featuring powerful artists within the African diaspora.
Visiting San Basilio de Palenque, the first free Black town in the New World, is a journey into a rich and resilient history of Afro-Colombian heritage. Founded in the 17th century by escaped African slaves (Maroons) led by Benkos Biohó, this village became a stronghold of freedom long before slavery was abolished in the Americas.
Candombe is a beautiful and powerful art form and cultural tradition brought to Uruguay centuries ago by people of African descent. Today it represents the resilience and history of a people. Join us in the making of a documentary about this unique South American experience.
Bolivians of African descent still find themselves living on the sidelines of society. The United Nations has designated 2011 as the International Year of People of African Descent. The year aims at strengthening the integration of people of African descent into all aspects of society.
More people who are both African-American and Mexican-American are defying categories and choosing to identify as Blaxican or multiracial, Clara Benitez reports.
The Garifuna people are descendants of mixed African-Indigenous ancestry from a few Central American and Caribbean countries. Their population is small, and their traditions are fading away. Harris Whitbeck went to Belize to report on a movement to protect the Garifuna's most important cultural legacy: their language.
The story behind this video starts on the Caribbean Island of St. Vincent. In 1635, two slave ships wrecked there and the African slaves escaped to freedom. They mixed in with the native Caribs, giving birth to a new Afro-Caribbean culture - the Garifuna (Gareefoonah). In the centuries since, the Garifuna migrated and founded villages along the Caribbean coast of Central America. Lonny Shavelson reports from Guatemala.
In the 1400s, it was the land of the Incas. In the centuries that followed, it became home to people from all corners of the Earth. From China, Japan, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, hundreds of thousands of people migrated to Peru, contributing to the formation of its rich cultural tapestry.
Afro-Cubans have a unique history in the Tampa Bay area that often gets overlooked. But tucked away in a tiny building along Ybor City’s 7th Avenue is a tale of triumph through racial tribulation. "Prior to the end of the war, the Black and white Cubans would fraternize and meet together to discuss common problems," said Francisco Rodriguez Sr. in a 1978 interview.
The Blaxicans of Los Angeles project is centered on understanding the limitations and prospects of multiracial identity in Los Angeles through the lens of Blaxicans (Black-Mexicans). Walter seeks to understand the impacts of Blaxicans on black and brown race relations and the prospects for solidarity and racial and political coalitions in, arguably, one the of most divisive political moments in this nation's history.
Latin America and the Caribbean received 95 percent of the Africans stolen during the trans-Atlantic slave trade. But what does it mean to be a descendent of those Africans today, in a world where more voices are calling out racism in Latin America?
Conversations about racism within the Latinx community have gained more visibility in recent years, with Afro-Latinx scholars, activists, and cultural leaders shedding light on the deep-rooted anti-Blackness that persists in Latin America and its diasporas.
Bomba is an ancient genre of resistance from Puerto Rico created by enslaved people on the island over 400 years ago. Recently, bomba music has been a staple of Black Lives Matter protests calling back to its roots as a music of resilience.