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Afro Charities to host fundraiser 'Wildest Dreams' in Baltimore. Event raises money for archival collection and supports Black history preservation.
Along with the races for Preakness, there are many events planned across the Baltimore area, including Afro Preak! Skip to content. NOWCAST 11 News Saturday Morning.
In the middle of the 20th century, even earlier, New York became a destination for musicians from different latitudes on the continent. Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, Panamanians, Venezuelans, ...
There were riots in 1959 and more that turned deadly in 1964, when 22 Panamanians and four US soldiers were killed. “By the mid-1960s, there began to be a consensus among American elites that ...
This March, the board of directors of the Berkeley Student Cooperative, or BSC, passed a proposal for a one-year pilot retheme of the African American Theme House, otherwise known as Afro House.
President Donald Trump has directed the Pentagon to prepare plans for carrying out his threat to "take back" the Panama Canal, including by military force if needed, two U.S. officials familiar with ...
During that time, Chinese and Afro-Caribbean workers were recruited to build the railway that spanned the isthmus. Their labor left a significant cultural legacy in Panama, but as Victor Ortiz, a ...
And Panamanians, we had to live by these rules too in the Canal Zone. My aunt remembers taking an accounting class in the Canal Zone College. Tía mami: “All the chairs next to the window would be used ...
They bought up land or stores and became even wealthier. They were disliked by the Panamanian ruling class, who saw them as unsophisticated. Today Afro-Panamanians still live in the slums, speaking ...
When Afro-Caribbeans disembarked from their ships and entered the Canal Zone in the early twentieth century, ... To some Panamanians, the fact that the Box 25 testimonies reside in the U.S. capital ...
To some Panamanians, the fact that the Box 25 testimonies reside in the U.S. capital rather than in Panama vividly suggests the continued legacies of colonialism.