In a special report for CNN by Abby Reimer, the writer reports on the invisibility of Afro-Mexicans, many of whom are descendants of the 200,000 Africans brought to Mexico under slavery, which ended in the country in 1829. The hea...
It was a beautiful crisp day. A perfect sky absent of clouds and filled to the brim with the deepest blues. It hung so full of itself that I felt like I could just reach up and touch it. There had been many days that I’d fel...
On Saturday, June 29, 2013, the first Afro Latino Festival of New York: Listen to the Echo of the Drums in Latin America was held in Flatbush, Brooklyn, home to one of the largest Caribbean and Afro Latino communities in New York ...
“Your masters who lived in opulence, kept you to hard work by some contemptible being called overseer-who chastised and beat you whenever he pleased-while your master lived in some Northern town or in Europe to squander away...
“I’ve outdone anyone you can name – Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, Strauss. Irving Berlin, he wrote 1,001 tunes. I wrote 5,500.” James Brown On May 3, 1933, James Joseph Brown, Jr., singer, songwriter, and “The Godfather of ...
“I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.” — Black...
“Politics with me is a full- time business, it is not a hobby to be worked on in leisure hours, it’s a job – a full-time job that pays off only if a man is willing to apply the energy, start from scratch and profit from his ...
“I say, let my children have music. For God’s sake, rid this society of some of the noise so that those who have ears will be able to use them someplace listening to good music.” Charles Mingus This date marks the birth of Charle...
“…may I humbly submit to you, the only thing that has enabled me to do the creative work, was the constant determination: Take Heart: Go Farther On.” Percy Julian April 19, 1975: Percy Lavon Julian, research chemist and pioneer in...
“In our ethnic and racial diversity, we are all brothers and sisters in a quest for greatness. Our creativity and energy are unequalled by any city anywhere in the world.” Harold Lee Washington April 15, 1922: Harold Lee Washingto...
