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  • Meet Afro-Latina Trailblazer, Crystal Roman, Founder ofThe Black Latina Movement

    Meet Afro-Latina Trailblazer, Crystal Roman, Founder of The Black Latina Movement Boriqua Chicks: A Fresh, Urban, Afro-Latina Perspective 2014-11-19 Crystal Shaniece Roman, CEO & Founder of The Black Latina Movement, LLC has used her personal experience with identity to fuel several creative projects that recognize and celebrate Black Latinas. From theatrical productions to a web series,…

  • CNN’s Candy Crowley interviews President Barack Obama

    CNN’s Candy Crowley interviews President Barack Obama Cable News Network (CNN) 2014-12-21 For his last interview of the year, President Obama sat down, exclusively, with CNN’s Candy Crowley to discuss North Korea’s cyber-attack on Sony Pictures, normalizing relations with Cuba, Russia, Iran, race relations in America and Guantanamo Bay. The interview aired Sunday, December 21st,…

  • The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences

    The Obamas: How We Deal with Our Own Racist Experiences People Magazine 2014-12-17 Sandra Sobieraj Westfall Barack and Michelle Obama (Gillian Laub) The Obamas open up about raising their daughters, the impact of stereotypes, and what’s on the POTUS dance party playlist. The protective bubble that comes with the presidency – the armored limo, the…

  • INTERVIEW: Martha S. Jones, University of Michigan Professor

    Impolite Conversations is a fascinating collection of essay that captures a set of exchanges between journalist Cora Daniels and cultural anthropologist John L. Jackson, Jr.

  • ‘Pelo Malo’ Director Mariana Rondon: Why Her Movie Hits A Nerve

    ‘Pelo Malo’ Director Mariana Rondon: Why Her Movie Hits A Nerve NBC News 2014-11-19 Sandra Guzman For Latinos born with Afro-textured, curly hair or kinky hair – referred to as pelo malo or “bad hair” in Latin America and the Caribbean – their experiences can be quite intense and in many cases negative, as an…

  • 11-2 Insight Dr. Yaba Blay Author of One Drop – Shifting the Lens on Race

    11-2 Insight Dr. Yaba Blay Author of One Drop – Shifting the Lens on Race Power 99FM, WUSL-FM Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2014-10-30 Loraine Ballard Morill, Host Yaba Blay, Assistant Teaching Professor of Africana Studies Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Dr. Yaba Blay author of (1)ne Drop: Shifting the Lens on Race talks about the changing definition of race…

  • Returning to an ‘Impossible’ Role

    Amber Gray on ‘An Octoroon,’ at Soho Rep

  • Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History

    Kathleen López: Chinese Cubans: A Transnational History New Books in Latin American Studies: Discussions with Scholars of Latin America about Their New Books 2014-11-21 Alejandra Bronfman, Associate Professor of History University of British Columbia, Canada Successive waves of migration brought thousands of Chinese laborers to Cuba over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The coolie trade,…

  • Hispanic Or Latino? That Is The Question

    Sept. 15 to Oct. 15 is being celebrated as Hispanic Heritage Month, but the some say the word “Hispanic” should be retired, and would rather be referred to as Latino. Host Michel Martin speaks to four Latinos with varying opinions on the subject — syndicated columnist Ruben Navarrette, Afro-Latino Activist Roland Roebuck, “Ask a Mexican”…

  • Q&A with Dorothy Roberts

    Q&A with Dorothy Roberts Penn Current: News, ideas and conversations from the University of Pennsylvania 2014-10-16 Greg Johnson, Managing Editor When Dorothy Roberts was 3 months old, she moved with her parents from Chicago to Liberia, where her mother, Iris, had worked as a young woman after leaving Jamaica. It was the first of Dorothy’s…