Tag: teleSUR

  • For Black History Month, Catherine Walsh, professor of Afro-Andean Studies at the University Simon Bolivar in Quito, Ecuador, shares with teleSUR her views about the achievements and challenges for the construction of an Afro-descendent consciousness in Latin America.

  • Black Lives Matter in the Dominican Republic teleSUR 2015-08-11 Auset Marian Lewis Racial profiling is not just happening in the U.S., Haitians in the Dominican Republic suffer the same discrimination. “Black lives matter” is a resounding cry heard around the world. The UN Working Group of Experts of People of African Descent said as much…

  • Blaxican: The Revolutionary Identity of Black Mexicans teleSUR 2015-07-29 “The Afro-Latino term felt like home. There was finally a term that described what all of this was. It was a group of people who felt like I was feeling. I was finally able to identify with a group of people and it was a relief.”…

  • Tais Araujo: Fighting Brazil’s Racism Takes More Than A Hashtag teleSUR 2015-11-18 Leopoldo Duarte Taís Araújo‬’s profile picture on her Twitter account. | Photo: Twitter, @taisdeverdade Most Brazilians take pride in living in a “racial democracy.” According to them Brazil is supposedly a country that evaded racism through the amicable blending of its native, African…

  • Afro-Latinas Work for Cultural Survival teleSUR 2015-03-20 Mai’a Williams Quito, Ecuador In recent years, there has been a resurgence of Afro-Latino youth in the U.S. rooting themselves, their families and their communities in their African heritages as a way to create cultures of resistance to the dominant narratives of colonization and white supremacy. These movements…