I knew this adventure with Kim Haas wasn’t ordinary the moment we climbed onto a motorcycle-powered wooden train cart in ...

By Gonzalo Ortuño López Afro-descendant peoples in Latin America have historically been guardians of nature, but their role ...

Afro-descendant and Indigenous women in Colombia’s rural areas are responding to land dispossession, conflict and ...

"I did not know there were Black people there." It is a reaction Martina Blandón hears often. In this personal essay, she confronts the systematic erasure of Afro-Colombian history—from the free towns ...

“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 ...

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 ...

Members of Black pastoral commissions from Latin American and Caribbean nations gathered earlier this month in Luján, ...

This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 3 November 2006 Dozens of ...

The SUNY Cortland campus community is invited to join a discussion of the adaptations of many religions in Latin America. Maria Klara Ventura, an Multicultural Life and Diversity Office intern and ...

From Santa Marta, he sent this version of "Romance de flor." ...