We Are Energy, We Are The Universe, 

Rumi

In solidarity with all #DREAMers who resist to the injustices of our system. I stand by your side in the fight for better opportunities in higher education. #WeAreOne and we will resist. #NYDA #CUNYDREAMers in #HungerStrike #FastingYourDreams

— Maya Angelou

Viva our culture! 

Thursday, October 23rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm  Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Plenary Conference Opening: Race Counts! Welcome

Miriam Jiménez Roman, Executive Director, afrolatin@ forum

Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation 

Juan Flores, co-founder, afrolatin@ forum

Round-table Discussion

Pedro Noguera, New York University

Tanya K. Hernández, Fordham University School of Law

Leonardo Reales Jiménez, Human Rights Activist, Storyteller, and University Professor

Tianna Paschel, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago

Rolando Roebuck, Community Activist, Washington, DC

Cultural Presentation RSVP for Thursday Night’s Plenary

Friday, October 24th, 8:30am - 6:00pm Graduate Center, City University of New York 9:00am - 9:15am

Arrival and registration

9:15am - 10:45am

In and Out of Focus: Media and AfroLatin@ Representation

AfroLatin@s in the Classroom: Youth, Education and Culture

11:00am - 12:30pm    

Looking Suspicious: The Racialization of Crime

Taking Measures: AfroLatin@s and Economic Inequities

12:30pm - 1:30pm

Lunch

1:30pm - 3:00pm

¿Y nosotros qué?: Acknowledging the AfroLatin@ Immigrant 

AfroLatin@s and Health Disparities: When Both Race and Ethnicity Matter

3:00pm - 3:30pm

Break

3:30pm - 5:00pm

Plenary: Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues

5:15pm -  6:45pm

Closing Plenary: Identity, Visibility and Representation: The Role of the Census

Saturday, October 25th, 1:00pm - 6:00pm  El Museo del Barrio 1:00pm - 2:30pm    

Panel: Recounting the Afrolatin@ Artist Experience – Past, Present, & Future

2:30pm - 3:30pm    

Dance and Mask-Making Workshops

3:30pm - 5:00pm         

Musical and Cultural Performances

4:30pm - 5:30pm

Reception

RSVP for Saturday’s Family Day

View schedule HERE

So the first time I saw this mural I was happy to see some art in my neighborhood (that wasn’t removed by the authorities) but two nights later I found out this had been put up by the #Flatbush and Nostrand Junction #BusinessImprovementDevelopment or #BID. I have had bad experiences with #BIDs across #NYC so my thoughts are biased but damn it sucks that nobody in the Junction community (that I asked) knew that this was unfolding in our neighborhood —many of us did notice some construction work and new lam posts, but no idea of the reasons behind it. So my question is how can the unknown key players actively involved in the decision-making process of the Flatbush/Nostrand Junction BID intend to improve and ‘beautify’ my community if they haven’t even asked me or non (or very few) of my fellow neighbors what that means for us?!! -_-’ I just hope I don’t see any of the long-time businesses or tenants pushed out of their locales&homes. #rantsaboutthechangesinmycommunity (at The Junction - Flatbush/Nostrand)

Check out these resources at Baruch College!

“Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You [white women] fear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you; we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in the street, and you will turn your backs on the reasons they are dying.”

— Audre Lorde, “Age, Race, Class, and Sex: Women Redefining Difference” (via commiekinkshamer)

Malala Yousafzai is a true freedom fighter. This is truly inspirational to our world, hoping this stirs our communities all around.

BREAKING: Malala Yousafzai Wins Nobel Peace Prize

Malala, now 17, was shot in the head by a Taliban gunman two years ago in her home country of Pakistan after coming to prominence for her campaigning for education for girls.

She won for what the Nobel committee called her “heroic struggle” for girls’ right to an education.

She is the youngest ever winner of the prize. (x)

The creations of Guayasamín always move something deep in my existence -- always taking me back hundreds of years back. Above all, his images remind me how much there is still to be done for our pueblos.  

El Grito III (The Cry III) ~ Oswaldo Guayasamin

me w/o glasses! 

Night View by Takashi Kitajima