Afro-Latino identity has left a profound mark on American culture while continuing to face structural invisibility.

One in four Latin Americans identify themselves as people of African descent. They are one of the largest, yet least visible minorities in the region, comprising over 133 million people, the majority ...

I knew this adventure with Kim Haas wasn’t ordinary the moment we climbed onto a motorcycle-powered wooden train cart in Córdoba, bound for the remote village of San Cipriano. Home to just 600 people ...

“This is the most important event of the first year of the United Nations Decennial on Afrodescendants.” That is how Celeo Alvarez, leader and founder of ODECO (Organization of Community Ethnic ...

The Hutchins Center at Harvard University has announced the appointment of Alejandro de la Fuente as the new editor of Transition, the longest running Pan-African cultural magazine in history. Under ...

We're shine a well-deserved spotlight on Graciela Grillo, Tania Maria and more artists who made Latin jazz what it is today.

Of the almost 11 million Africans who came to the Americas between 1500 and 1870, two-thirds came to Spanish America and Brazil. Africans and their descendants--both free and enslaved--participated in ...

Kim Haas discovered her lifelong passion for travel at just six years old. During her first trip outside the U.S. to Acapulco, Mexico, a stranger approached her and her grandmother in the hotel lobby ...

From Howard University to Wellesley College, his music is in classrooms exploring Puerto Rico’s history, Afro-Latin culture, and the politics of pop.

Introduction: Theorizing Afrolatinidades Petra R. Rivera-Rideau, Jennifer A. Jones, and Tianna S. Paschel Part I: Imagining Afrolatinidades Jossianna Arroyo -- 1 The Expediency of Blackness: Racial ...