by Forest Parks | May 15, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Positivity
A modern-day Renaissance artist, Afro-Latinx artist Harmonia Rosales is channeling the greats of art history in her large-scale paintings, like Michelangelo. Her show-stopper, re-imagining of Michelangelo‘s ‘Creating of Adam’ inserts blackness in spaces where it has...
by Forest Parks | Mar 16, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, News
Black and Latinx teens have been going missing quickly and in high amounts and the mainstream media seem to be dedicating very little time to talking about it. UPDATE: YOU ARE BEING HEARD! Town Hall Held To Discuss Missing D.C. Black And Latina Teen Girls RELATED:...
by Forest Parks | Mar 15, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, News
We all have to stand up to white supremacy, racism against all people and this woman on an NYC Subway is setting the example for us all to uphold. She is Latina, possibly, and in Spanish and English stood up to a white woman was was attacking a man who looked Indian...
by Forest Parks | Mar 14, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, News, Opinion
“White Girl, Take OFF Your Hoops.” was spray painted onto the side of a dorm at Pitzer College in Southern California, a college devoted to unmoderated free speech through art. The message was spray painted by a group of Latinx students to make a point but has been...
by Forest Parks | Mar 6, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Celebrities, News
I hate this crap, really! People deciding who is black enough and who isn’t! Singer and actor Tyrese Gibson called his wife a #BlackQueen and actually faced a backlash with people questioning is she was even black! Gibson had to defend his choice of words and...
by Forest Parks | Mar 3, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, News
A Hispanic Walmart employee recorded an encounter with a customer who was berating her and ranting about foreigners coming in, getting fat and leaching the system. Then he pulls the white card! The hispanic employee points out that she also pays her taxes after he...
by Forest Parks | Mar 3, 2017 | Afro-Latinx
This beautiful video of Afro-Cuban dancers who follow the Santeria religion was shared by NatGeo. They posted to Instagram with the caption: Santeria dancers perform in an abandoned building site in Havana, Cuba. The dance company leader teaches discipline and...
by Candace | Mar 1, 2017 | Afro-Latinx
Let’s take some time to marvel in beauty of culture! Approximately 400 years ago runaway slaves formed the first free black town of the Americas. What’s so amazing about the free black town of the Americas located in San Basilio De Palenque, Colombia is the African...
by Forest Parks | Feb 28, 2017 | Afro-Latinx
This guy lives in Colombia, a country that’s had a patchy past but seems to be coming together finally, a country with a growing tech industry, a lust for life and a strong Afro presence. Below he compares his life in Colombia vs New York. Check it out and let...
by Forest Parks | Feb 23, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, News
Bolivia has a new Afro-Bolivian police chief, the first black police chief in their history and he wants to ‘decolonize’ his force in order to combat racism. He was sworn in by President Evo Morales who has been a leader of the decolonization movement in...
