Ankara Prints in the Afro-Brazilian Diaspora
Smiling brightly and visibly moved, Anielle Franco stood before the crowd and delivered her inaugural speech at Palácio do Planalto, in the capital Brasília.
Category: Identities and Beyond
The National Puerto Rican Day Parade
It was only about 73°F (about 23°C) on June 8, 2024—far from the horrid heatwaves yet to come—when we both attended the National Puerto Rican Day Parade for the first time ever.
Black Is a Working-Class Color: The Latinx Politics of Wearing Black
In his memoir book Solito, the celebrated Latinx writer Javier Zamora recuperates his story as an unaccompanied Salvadoran nine-year-old migrating to the United States. He takes the reader across several borders and the journey’s many difficulties, fears and small triumphs, as he struggles to reunite with his parents in the United States. One of the details that caught my attention was Zamora’s attentiveness to the dressed migrant body in darker, mostly black, clothing.
Reflection of Change
My mom used to say to me, “Your clothing is your business card.”
Milliones de Maneras
hakira is the best-selling Latin American female musician of all time.
