{"id":57647,"date":"2019-02-21T02:10:05","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T02:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57647"},"modified":"2019-02-27T01:20:31","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T01:20:31","slug":"afro-descendants-in-latin-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57647","title":{"rendered":"Afro-Descendants in Latin America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"mailto:Chelsea.Grey@mail.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Afro-Descendants in Latin America<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aoc.gov\/capitol-buildings\/rayburn-house-office-building\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rayburn House Office Building<\/a><br \/>\n45 Independence Ave SW<br \/>\nRoom 2247<br \/>\nWashington, DC 20515<br \/>\n<strong>2019-02-26, 11:00-12:30 EST (Local Time)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hankjohnson.house.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Hank Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, Host<br \/>\n<em>United States House of Representatives (GA-04)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Panelists<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ofunshi Oba Kosso, <em>Yoruba Cuba Organization<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Carlos Quesada, Race and Equality<\/li>\n<li>Crystal Yuille, WOLA<\/li>\n<li>Euclides Rengifo, UNIAFRO<\/li>\n<li>Alessandra Ramos, TRANS FORMAR, Brazil<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"mailto:Chelsea.Grey@mail.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/Dz4BaLfWkAgKBMN.jpg\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Please join Rep. Hank Johnson<sup>*<\/sup> for a discussion on the state of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Latin_Americans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Afro-descendants<\/a> in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Latin_America\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Latin America<\/a>. Our panel of experts will illuminate many of the rights and liberties under threat in Latin America, and how a productive relationship between government and civil society can promote inclusion, justice, and equality for Afrodescendants in the region. Panelists will also speak to the importance of the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_Nations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">UN<\/a> designated <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/en\/events\/africandescentdecade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Decade for People of African Descent<\/a> in globally combatting racism and discrimination.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup>Rep. Johnson is the sponsor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/116th-congress\/house-resolution\/133\/all-actions?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22congressId%3A116+AND+billStatus%3A%5C%22Introduced%5C%22%22%5D%7D&amp;s=1&amp;r=82&amp;overview=closed\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">H.Res 133<\/a>\u2014Supporting the goals and ideals of the designation of January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2024, as the &#8220;International Decade for People of African Descent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>RSVP to Chelsea Grey at <a href=\"mailto:Chelsea.Grey@mail.house.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chelsea.Grey@mail.house.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please join Rep Hank Johnson* for a discussion on the state of Afro-descendants in Latin America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,13,8,20],"tags":[29534,29531,29532,29533,29529,29530],"class_list":["post-57647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-latincarib","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-alessandra-ramos","tag-carlos-quesada","tag-crystal-yuille","tag-euclides-rengifo","tag-hank-johnson","tag-ofunshi-oba-kosso"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57647"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57654,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions\/57654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}