April 2011
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Soul! Black variety show from 1972. 'Shades of... →
This show is 40 years old and yet it’s still news to some people that Latin America has a significant African presence. There is so little awareness of the links that bind us across the Diaspora. The classic salsa sound of New York City is una mezcla: Puerto Ricans living in New York inspired by Cuban music that emerged out of the Black experience in Cuba and draws heavily from African...
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Get hip to the Diaspora #2: Blacks in Latin... →
Part two of Henry Louis Gates’ series looking at the Black experience in the Americas.
Only 5% of all Africans taken during the Atlantic slave trade landed in United States, less than half a million people. Everyone else - close to 10 million people - went to Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica, Haiti, Trinidad and the rest of the Caribbean. The Black experience in the...
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“You’re not an African because you’re born in Africa. You’re an African because...”
– Marimba Ani
