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Afro-Latina Artist Harmonia Rosales Painted God As a Black Woman And People Lost Their Collective Shit

Afro-Latina Artist Harmonia Rosales Painted God As a Black Woman And People Lost Their Collective Shit

Harmonia Rosales is an Afro-Latina artist who does one thing we can totally get behind – she ‘flips the art canvas script’ literally, by doing her own take of the world’s most renowned works of art (with male subjects, white males) with Black women/ women of color as the subjects

Self Love As A Process For A Brown Girl

Self Love As A Process For A Brown Girl

It’s hard loving yourself when everyone is telling you otherwise. Here’s to a collective effort of trying to love your lonjitas, tú piel morena—just like I’m trying to love mine. I remember flaring up my nose in front of my mom, hoping she would flare her

Dear Mamá, La Revolucíon Is Within Me

Dear Mamá, La Revolucíon Is Within Me

Mamá, I know that I put my life in constant danger when I go out to raise my voice. I want you to understand why I consider myself an activist, why we as a generation, are part of the fight and why I must continue fighting para nuestra gente. Mami,

6 Latinx and Other People of Color Owned Coffee Shops In Your Hood To Know

6 Latinx and Other People of Color Owned Coffee Shops In Your Hood To Know

Two black men walked into a Philadelphia Starbucks store, sat down to have a conversation while waiting for a friend, without an order of coffee. Some time later, they were handcuffed and walked out by local police. National protests erupted mainly staged at Starbucks locations. The Starbucks Philadelphia store manager

How Being Bicultural Has Made Me Better

How Being Bicultural Has Made Me Better

My grandmother tells me that when I was young, I used to deny being Peruvian and claim to be only American. The family used to consider my claims a cute joke, which I probably misinterpreted as reinforcement. As I got older, however, I severely struggled with identifying my culture- where

Growing Up I Didn't Always Identify As Afro-Latina

Growing Up I Didn't Always Identify As Afro-Latina

Now That I Have Found Myself I Have Also Found My Voice. Here lately I have been talking a lot about the AfroLatina experience. Not just any experience. My experience. Someone from my past asked me when did I become an Afro-Latina? Was that a real question? Did they really

Dolores - The Film That Preserves A Feminist, Activist Story

Dolores - The Film That Preserves A Feminist, Activist Story

A New Film Sheds Light On Dolores Huerta’s Significant Untold Contribution From Creating ‘Si Se Puede’ Message to Organizing One of the nation’s most important of activists, a feminist, a mother to eleven (ay Dios mio what a super woman) and co-founder of the first farm workers union

OP-ED: White Male Terrorists and The Media

OP-ED: White Male Terrorists and The Media

Throughout the many years of terror attacks, the United States has endured this last decade, the majority of the carnage is at the hands of white males. In the past year, white males have killed more Americans in mass murders more than by any other background. However, in the past

Illegally WOMAN. Nobody should be labeled 'Illegal'. Spoken Word/Poetry

Illegally WOMAN. Nobody should be labeled 'Illegal'. Spoken Word/Poetry

‘Illegally WOMAN‘ as featured in ‘Timeless Tales, True Edition‘ by Vincent Miller featuring Thalia Edwards Available on Amazon Also available on Amazon, Thalia’s Black Code a poetic memoir inspired by the insightful self-reflections of inner city Black and Latino teenagers as they look further into social, cultural and political

Why It’s Important To Shop Latina, Black and Other Women of Color Brands That Rep Us

Why It’s Important To Shop Latina, Black and Other Women of Color Brands That Rep Us

Kim Kardashian showed off her latest hairdo: Fulani braids, inspired by Fulani women of East or West African. Except, in traditional Kardashian fashion, Kim robbed African American women of the credit for the style and called them “Bo Derek” braids instead. Bo Derek is a white actress who was seen

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