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Thursday, 23 August 2007 |
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By Kintto Lucas QUITO,
Aug 9 (IPS)
Indigenous and black women in Latin America and the Caribbean face three-fold discrimination because of their gender, race and social class, in politics and at work.
That is how it was put by participants in a panel on "Citizenship and Political Participation by Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Women" at the 10th Regional Conference on Women that ended Thursday in the Ecuadorean capital.
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Monday, 13 August 2007 |
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Racism Against Black Dominicans
Has Become Epidemic on the Island
By JULIO TAVAREZ
The New York Post (August 9, 2007)
Re-printed from National Institute For Latino Policy
August 8, 2007 -- When I read last week about the U.S. Embassy in the Dominican Republic censuring Loft, a nightclub in the Naco neighborhood of Santo Domingo, because of the club's policy of discrimination against black patrons and employees, it brought back sour memories of a recent trip I took to the island.
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Tuesday, 24 July 2007 |
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By Bruno Gaston International Editor ATLANTA, July 15, 2007, 12:20 p.m. Afro-Latino communities in the United States may be just as invisible to the average American as they are hidden in their many countries of origin. Now, more than ever, their voices are grabbing the attention of the American government and challenging the concept of race and identity in Latin America.
Robert Asprilla, executive director of the Afro-Latino Development Alliance in Washington D.C., spoke to Redding News Review about the historical advances made by Afro-Colombians at home through the efforts of the Diaspora in America.
"White Colombians have traditionally migrated to Miami and Queens," Asprilla said. "Afro-Colombians went Houston and Chicago." Read full articule using the link http://reddingnewsreview.com/newspages/2007newspages/us_afro_Latinos_push_rights_07_09100101.htm |
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Monday, 25 June 2007 |
A Puerto Rican Woman Claims Her Place In The African DiasporaJune 20, 2007 by Rosa Clemente, Writer Rosa Clemente, founder of the R.E.A.C.Hip Hop Coalition An interesting thing happened to me the other day. I was told I am not Black. The kicker for me was when my friend said that the island of Puerto Rico was not a part of the African Diaspora. I wanted to go back to the old skool playground days and yell: "You said what about my momma?!" But after speaking to several friends, I found out that many Black Americans and Latinos agree with him. The miseducation of the Negro is still in effect! The article was first reported in Black and Brown News Read full article using the link http://www.blackandbrownnews.com/front/341041570_story.php |
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Tuesday, 19 June 2007 |
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COMMENTARY
Progress, and hope, seen in Colombia
BY REP. GREGORY W. MEEKS
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I recently had the opportunity to visit Colombia and participate in a six-hour town hall meeting between the Afro-Colombian civil society, President Alvaro Uribe and members of his cabinet. Notably, two newly appointed members of the administration at the meeting were Afro-Colombians: Deputy Minister of Labor Andrés Palacios and Paula Moreno, minister of culture, the first African descendant to assume a cabinet position in Colombia. Also there were several members of the Colombian Bancada, which is a caucus of nine Afro-Colombian legislators, who shared with me their plans to work with grass-roots organizations and advance a legislative agenda addressing disparities in education, health and economic development, and other issues. Read full commentary by clicking on the link http://www.miamiherald.com/579/story/141136.html |
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