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unusualmusic_lj_archive ([personal profile] unusualmusic_lj_archive) wrote2008-01-17 08:47 pm

A Rising Voice: Afro-Latin Americans

This was a series run by the Miami Herald last year in June. [livejournal.com profile] mokamokamoka located it for me. (sends loads of thanks her way)



In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey: to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful cultural and civil rights movement flickers while in neighbouring Honduras, the black Garifuna community fights for cultural survival; to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not always embraced; to Brazil, home of the world's second largest population of African descent; to Cuba, where a revolution that promised equality has failed on it's commitment to erase racism; and to Colombia, where the first black general serves as an example of Afro-Latin American achievements

read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/multimedia/news/afrolatin/index.html