From Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico, here’s how Afro-Latino activists are uniting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and in memory of George Floyd.
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From Panama, Colombia, Brazil, and El Salvador to Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico, here’s how Afro-Latino activists are uniting in support of the Black Lives Matter movement and in memory of George Floyd.
National Black Lives Matter at School
National Black Lives Matter at School is an organization struggling for liberation and racial justice in education for Black youth, educators, and all youth of color. We work to address racial justice in education by promoting restorative justice, advocating for mental health support, increasing Black teaching staff, ending police presence in schools, and mandating Black history and ethnic studies. Website includes curriculum guides and advocacy demands among other resources.
León Krauze
Observing the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests in Los Angeles, this article reflects on the growing solidarity between Latino and Black communities, Latino anti-Blackness, and the experiences of Afro-Latino protesters.
Ed Morales
Ed Morales explains how Latinx political identities are tied to a long Latin American history of mestizaje, translatable as “mixedness” or “hybridity”, and that this border thinking is both a key to understanding Latinx cultures and a challenge to America’s infamously black–white racial regime.