1. The LatiNegr@s Project: A Response In Solidarity»

    lati-negros:

    In light of the recent Letter to the Editor of Latina Magazine from Alicia Anabel Santos, we, The LatiNegr@s Project/@BeingAfroLatino, stand in agreement that Latina Magazine is misrepresenting Afr@Latin@s through their recent list of “Happy Black History Month: The 50 Most Beautiful…

    (via larepublicadedet)

  2. dynamicafrica:

Rightly listed by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the best Brazilian albums in history, and possibly of all time  (forgive me if my bias is showing), África Brasil is quite possibly the definitive album of Afro-Brasilian music legend Jorge Ben’s career. 
A heavy mixture of samba and funk, Jorge Ben so perfectly captures the iconic sound and essence associated with the Música Popular Brasileira post-Bossa Nova cultural movement in Brasil, and also pays tribute to the various African cultures (e.g. Mozambican, Congolese and Angolan) that have greatly influenced the fabric of Brasilian culture to this day.
Songs such as Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma), Cavaleiro do Cavalo Imaculado, África Brasil (Zumbi) and Xica da Silva all reference and/or pay tribute to Afro-Brasilian historical icons and Afro-Brasilian history.

    dynamicafrica:

    Rightly listed by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the best Brazilian albums in history, and possibly of all time  (forgive me if my bias is showing), África Brasil is quite possibly the definitive album of Afro-Brasilian music legend Jorge Ben’s career. 

    A heavy mixture of samba and funk, Jorge Ben so perfectly captures the iconic sound and essence associated with the Música Popular Brasileira post-Bossa Nova cultural movement in Brasil, and also pays tribute to the various African cultures (e.g. Mozambican, Congolese and Angolan) that have greatly influenced the fabric of Brasilian culture to this day.

    Songs such as Ponta de Lança Africano (Umbabarauma), Cavaleiro do Cavalo Imaculado, África Brasil (Zumbi) and Xica da Silva all reference and/or pay tribute to Afro-Brasilian historical icons and Afro-Brasilian history.

    (via larepublicadedet)

  3. larepublicadedet:

    Dia de la Etnia Negra - Historiadora Aminta Nuñez - Orígenes de los Afro Panameños

    (via nuestrahermana)

  4. larepublicadedet:

    DÍA DE LA ETNIA NEGRA PANAMÁ 2011

  5. latinegrasexologist:

    A Campaign Pitch Rekindles the Question: Just What Is Liberation Theology?

    But as a category, liberation theology, which often draws heavily on Marxist analysis, is not ethnocentric. It has been taken up by oppressed groups including third world peoples, Latinos, Asians and other American ethnic minorities. Its most famous text, “A Theology of Liberation,” published in 1971 by the Peruvian priest Gustavo Gutiérrez, is associated primarily with Latin American Christianity.

    Since his and Dr. Cone’s books, lesbian, gay and other queer theologians have developed a liberation theology of sexuality. Black women propound what they call womanist theology, and Latina women have taken up “mujerista” theology, for the Spanish word for “womanist.”

    The founding mother of mujerista theology, Ada Maria Isasi-Diaz, a Cuban-American who taught at Drew University, died May 13. She is remembered for the radical step of doing theological field work, talking to Latina women for theological insights that scholars might not glean from books. In works like “En La Lucha” (“In the Struggle”), she used interviews with Latina women, and their descriptions of prayer and religious rituals and festivals, to elaborate the Latina relationship to Christianity, and to the Bible.

    “Hispanic women’s experience and our struggle for survival, not the Bible, are the source of our theology and the starting point for how we should interpret, appropriate, and use the Bible,” Ms. Isasi-Diaz wrote in “Mujerista Theology,” published in 1996.

  6. Exclusive: Jessica Sanchez Opens up About Idol and Being Latina »

    from fox news, but important b/c chican@-filipin@s are excluded in, hmm, everything?

  7. Puerto Rican judge orders journalist to reveal confidential source

    latinegrasexologist:

    source

    Puerto Rican judge orders journalist to reveal confidential source

    By Tania Lara/NR

    Journalism in the Americas Blog (May 24, 2012)

     

    Journalist organizations condemned a court order that forces a Puerto Rican journalist to reveal the identity of a confidential source, reported the newspaperEl Nuevo Día.

     

    Judge Katherine Silvestri, from a court in San Juan, ordered journalist Cándida Cotto to reveal the identity of the confidential source she used when reporting on the 2010 strike in the University of Puerto Rico, according to the weeklyClaridad.

     

    The newspaper and the journalist were sued by the former university chancellor and the chancellor’s spouse for defamation and slander and attributing the declarations to an anonymous source, according to the court resolution.

     

    The Journalists Association of Puerto Rico considered the court decision “a dangerous precedent against freedom of the press,” and that it could have repercussions in that public figures may intimidate journalists and their potential sources of information, according to an announcement by this organization on Wednesday, May 23.

     

    The newspaper Nuevo Día said that in at least one previous case, the court requested the journalist to turn in tape recordings and interviews about a former peasant leader.


    h/t @vivirlatino

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