AFRO-LATINX

Mar Cruz dances Puerto Rican bomba in the film "Negra, Yo Soy Bella." Director Vashni Korin, Pelua Productions. Tribeca. (Photo by Gabriella Baéz, courtesy of Vashni Korin)
Executive produced by Queen Latifah and directed by Vashni Korin, “Negra, Yo Soy Bella” raises and praises Black Puerto Rican…
/ April 4, 2023
Part of a U.S. Census form
For Afro-Latinos and others with dark skin, the OMB proposal erases how they experience racism compounded by their Blackness.
/ March 16, 2023
Puerto Rico, Travel, Vacation, theGrio.com
The island of Puerto Rico has so much to offer visitors. Step outside your hotel and make memories with these…
/ January 24, 2023
Acclaimed Afro-Latino photographer Juan Veloz talks about his Dominican roots and creating his own “Tercera Cultura” in the Metaverse.
/ December 17, 2022
New York Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado says he wants to connect across communities.
/ October 10, 2022
Between 2015 and 2021, Lakeland Bank allegedly failed to provide mortgage lending services to Newark's Black and Latino communities.
/ September 30, 2022
Hurricane Fiona struck Puerto Rico’s southwest coast, unleashing landslides, knocking out the power grid and ripping up roads.
/ September 19, 2022
Prof. Tanya K. Hernández's book, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Blackness,” unpacks the complicated relationship between Latinos, Afro-Latinos, and African Americans.
/ August 23, 2022
Maya Rudolph is back! The "Saturday Night Live" legend stars in Loot on Apple TV+ alongside "Pose" alum, Michaela Jaé…
/ June 30, 2022
Black and Latino Americans are more likely than whites or non-Hispanic people to continue wearing masks in public.
/ June 21, 2022
Francia Marquez, an enironmentalist who fought gold miners has been elected vice president of Colombia.
/ June 21, 2022
About 6 million Afro-Latino adults in the U.S. make up 2% of the adult population and 12% of adult Latinos.
/ May 12, 2022