Mantra! Dear Educators And Activators, Have No Shame And No Fear In Creating Safe Spaces For Youth To

Real Talk! 

Mural Depicts Malala As Rosie The Riveter, Two Icons Who Know No Limits

Bob Marley | Could You Be Loved (RAC Remix)

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

That simple. An instinctive act of kindness has led to the creation of Las Patronas, a charitable organisation helping tens of thousands of Central American migrants…awarded Mexico’s most prestigious human rights prize.

The fact that they were three Muslim students, I think, has had something to do with the muted – relatively muted response we have had and I think that it’s time to say all lives matter.

Geraldo Rivera on The Chapel Hill Shooting (via themindfulmuslim)

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New moon blessings ✨💫

#Earth in #Acorn with #YokoOno

a friendly reminder

that calling women of color exotic is

fucking racist

dehumanizing

othering

and not a fucking compliment