AfroMundo: Who We Are

AFROMUNDO

OUR MISSION ANNOUNCEMENTS MEDIA CONTACT

Detail from "Etnias," from the "Peace Outlooks" series by Eduardo Kobra

OUR STORY

AfroMundo was born of a desire to counter alienation and marginalization by fostering civic engagement. It was therefore founded on the principles of convite—an age-old collaborative tradition that enables community members to pool their talents and scarce resources for rituals of life, socialization and mutual support, whether to collectively harvest each other’s fields, erect homes, tend to the sick, bury the dead, celebrate Feast Days or organize festivals, thus strengthening communal bonds and ensuring that no one toils, grieves or celebrates alone.

In the spirit of convite which takes into account that communities are wellsprings of wisdom, talents and skills, AfroMundo is a diverse, multigenerational collective of tradition bearers, storytellers, community historians, artists, cultural specialists and humanities scholars with the shared goal of nurturing community through meaningful traditional as well as contemporary cultural, artistic, and humanities programs designed to nourish the soul, address inequities, spark informed dialogues, and establish alliances to combat racism and bias.

WHO WE ARE

Loida Maritza Pérez

Founder and Director

A native of the Dominican Republic, a 2024 artEquity BIPOC Leadership Circle Fellow, a 2022-2023 National Leaders of Color Fellow, and a 2023 WESTAF BIPOC Artist Fund Awardee Loida Maritza Pérez is an independent scholar, cultural activist and author of Geographies of Home, a novel published in the United States and abroad. Her upcoming book, Beyond the Pale, won a PEN America 2019 Jean Stein Grant for Literary Oral History. Her work has appeared in the Michigan Quarterly Review, Latina, MaComere, Meridians, Edinburgh Review, Bomb, Callaloo and Best of Callaloo. She is also the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, including from the New York Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts in collaboration with University of New Mexico and Rutgers University, IC3-Institute for Communities, Creativity and Consciousness, Djerassi’s Henry Louis Gates Fellowship, Ragdale Foundation for the Arts U.S.–Africa Writer’s Project, MacDowell Arts Colony, Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, Millay Arts Colony, Ucross Foundation and Villa Montalvo. A University of New Mexico Visiting Scholar, she has taught creative writing at the National Hispanic Cultural Center, Taos Writers’ Workshop, Bread Loaf’s Summer Institute at St. John’s College and elsewhere. A former Board Member for the Albuquerque nonprofit Casa Barelas, she mentors high school students and edited Reflections on Water, an anthology of poetry, prose and art resulting from collaborations with elementary through high school students and established artists to foster conservation and an awareness of water issues in New Mexico.

THE COLLECTIVE

Guellwaar Adún
        
×Marcus Gonçalves da Silva aka Guellwaar AdúnGuellwaar Adún has used music, writing, and socially-engaged cultural work to contribute to the vitality of contemporary Afro-Brazilian culture in his home of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil since the late 1980s. Envision Guellwaar at the center of a multi-dimensional web of creativity and activity. Guellwaar is the co-founder, director and editor of the first Black publishing house in northeastern Brazil, Ogum’s Press, which began publishing in 2015, and grew out of the artistic and literary eponymous collective. His poetry and prose can be found in several anthologies. His poetry book desinteiro (Ed. Ogum’s, 2016) placed him among the top contemporary poets. Guellwaar is an accomplished composer of contemporary Afro-Brazilian music. His compositions are performed by the Bloco Afro/African Brazilian Carnival group Ilê Aiyé, one of the most prestigious cultural organizations in Bahia. Three times, his compositions have earned him 1st place in the Black Music Composer Contest sponsored by Ilê Aiyê.
Mel Adún
        
×Paula Melissa Alves aka Mel AdúnPaula Melissa Alves aka Mel Adún is a writer, journalist, and a Master in Literature and Culture at the Federal University of Bahia. She is co-founder of Editora Ogum's Publishing House in Brazil. Mel Adún is the author of A Lua Cheia de Vento (children's book, 2015), Adumbi (children's book, 2016); Peixe fora da Baía (short stories, 2021) and Quantas Tantas (poetry, 2021). Her poetry and prose can be found in several anthologies. She organized and edited the poetry anthology Quilombellas Amefricanas Vol. 1 and 2 (Ed. Ogum’s, 2020) with black women from Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mozambique, United States and more. Mel Adún was chosen by the Waters; she is a daughter of Oxum and the mother of Ominirê. In her writings, black-amefrican-feminist voices can be heard, always carried by the ancestors' power in her texts. Mel Adún is part of the Ogum's Toques Negros Collective, Corpos Indóceis e Mentes Livres (working towards sentence reduction for incarcerated women at the Women's Correctional Facility in Salvador, Bahia- Brazil) and is a coordinator at Kilomba - Black Brazilian Women living outside of Brazil Collective.
Kelli C. Bohannon
        
×Kelli Cassaundra BohannonEasy-going vegan, 90’s hip hop fan, lover of all things Star Wars, and red wine enthusiast, Kelli Cassaundra Bohannon believes that any dish can be made delicious with green and red chili! A classic Libra, Kelli enjoys decorating and re-decorating her home and socializing (virtually) with family and friends. A firm believer in community, Kelli often volunteers. Over the years, she has been a Girl Scout Troop Leader, a Sunday school teacher, PTA president, and a church youth group leader. During work hours, Kelli is an association executive for a rapidly growing nonprofit organization. After work hours, Kelli enjoys spending as much time as possible in her garden, delighting in the New Mexican climate, and hanging out with her favorite people – wife Belinda, daughter Lauryn, and puppy-dog Sir Britches. Kelli is an active member of the American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) and the International Dyslexia Association (IDA).
Francesca Chaney
        
×Francesca ChaneyFrancesca Chaney is an award winning plant-based chef, creative & full spectrum doula. Her thoughtful food creations explore the traditional flavors of her Garifuna and Southern American upbringing. In 2018 she began offering sliding-scale and community minded dining initiatives with the goal of making plant-based food and wellness more accessible. She continues to partner with community members and organizations to expand upon that goal. This year she released a plant-based chicken alternative and she is having lots of fun learning how to sustainably package products and goods from the Sol Sips kitchen. Her work has been featured in the 2020 Michelin Guide, Oprah's 2020 Vision Tour, Rachael Ray, Tamron Hall, Good Morning America and more. She is also listed as an Eater Young Gun, Grist50, Rachael Ray's Most Innovative Women in Food, and as one of New York Times: T-Magazine's 15 New Creatives to Watch.

Benjamin “BJ” Dennis
        
×Benjamin “BJ” DennisBenjamin “BJ” Dennis was born and raised in Charleston, SC. Recent appearances on Netflix 'High on the Hog' docu-series, P.B.S 'Moveable Feast' and Bravo's 'Top Chef' have taken Chef BJ and Gullah Cuisine to an international television audience. What differentiates Chef BJ’s food from his contemporaries in “southern” cooking is the homage he pays to the Gullah Geechee culture, brought to the Americas by West Africans, and disseminated along the West Indies and the American South. Dennis infuses the techniques of his ancestors, learned from four years of study in St. Thomas, as well as the lessons of his grandparents about eating from the land, to create fresh interpretations of local dishes focusing on in-season, locally sourced vegetables and seafood. Recent trips to Trinidad and Tobago, Haiti, Barbados, Dominica, U.S. Virgin Islands, Angola, Senegal and Benin has brought his work full circle. Connecting the people and cultures of the African diaspora through food. When you taste BJ’s cooking, you can’t help but re-think your idea of soul food. Chef BJ has an associate’s degree in hospitality / tourism management and the culinary arts from the Culinary Institute of Charleston and has worked in a number of award winning southern dining establishments including Carolinas, Anson’s, Oak Steakhouse, Hank’s Seafood, and 82 Queen. His cuisine has been featured in local, national and international events including the BB&T Wine+Food Festival, Cook It Raw, Meatopia, and The Food film fest. His “pop-up” dinners, at local establishments such as Butcher & Bee, Elliottborough MiniBar, Republic Reign, Le Creuset, Roadside Seafood and Proof, are sought after culinary adventures on the underground dinner circuit. His pop up at Labo Culinaire Foodlab in Montreal, Quebec in May 2015 took the Gullah food and culture to an international arena. Also a chef participant at the Terrior food symposium in Toronto May 2015, Canada's biggest food conference.
Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz
        
×Eleuterio Santiago-DíazPoet, professor, and literary critic. Upon graduation from the University of Puerto Rico, Santiago-Díaz worked as a teacher of Spanish, physical education and industrial arts, and as a librarian in Puerto Rican elementary schools. He earned a Master’s degree in Spanish from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. in Hispanic Studies from Brown University, and is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico. His teaching and research center on Afro-Caribbean and Caribbean literature examined in light of theories of race, writing and modernity; Latino-Caribbean literature in the United States; and Modern Latin American poetry. Before joining UNM, he taught language and literature in the departments of Spanish and Portuguese and African and Diaspora Studies at Tulane University, at Cambridge Community College and at St. Cloud State University. Santiago-Díaz is the author of the poetry books Árbol de plaza talado en su novena edad (Ciudad de México, Ediciones del Lirio, 2021) and Breaths (Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press, 2012), the scholarly book Escritura afropuertorriqueña y modernidad (Pittsburgh, PA: IILI/University of Pittsburgh, 2007), and articles published in academic journals and anthologies such as Revista Iberoamericana, Confluencia, Bilingual Review, Revista de Literatura, História e Memória, and Marvels of the African World: Cultural Patrimony, New World Connections, and Identities (Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, 2003). Pending publication, he has several creative projects: the poetry books Kernel and The Mollusk and the Thumb, and a collection of short stories titled El Circo.
Xiomara Fortuna
        
×Xiomara FortunaXiomara Fortuna is a pioneer of Afro Caribbean fusion whose music encompasses Afro Dominican roots rhythms, jazz, reggae, pop, contemporary rock, Latin, merengue, bachata and more.
        
Rolling Stone selected one of her 14 albums, Viendoaver, as #9 in a list of 35 Best Spanish-Language and Bilingual Albums of 2021. Her compositions are voyages across time, chants that echo deeply rooted memories, women’s tunes, journeys through the rhythms of the world, and poems of social consciousness and coexistence. Her voice has sung to the struggles of the Dominican people for social justice and has been a presence on stages where popular movements call for tolerance, education, environmental justice, and peace.

Included among her many awards are a UNESCO Gandhi Medal; a Medalla al Mérito de las Artes from the Presidency of the Dominican Republic and the Women’s Ministry; a recognition as Hija Meritoria by the cities of Santiago and Montecristi, Distrito Nacional of the Dominican Republic; and the Premio Casandra, an award from the Asociación de Cronistas de Arte de República Dominicana.
Charo Goyoneche
        
×Rosario Sonia Goyoneche Narciso, aka Charo GoyonecheRosario Sonia Goyoneche Narciso, aka Charo Goyoneche is a 2020 Latin Grammy Nominee appointed by the Peruvian Government as a Meritorious Person of Afro-Peruvian Culture. Charo Goyonehe is a Cultural Activists who through songs, theater and dance preserves Afro-Peruvian traditions and combats racism, sexism and marginalization. Her beginnings as a dancer were with iconic musical and dance ensemble Peru Negro founded in 1969 by Ronaldo Campos de la Colina to celebrate and preserve Peru’s black culture and criolla music. She is currently the principal singer for the Ambiente Criollo, and is on the Board of the cultural association Teatro del Milenio. Throughout her career, she has represented Peru in over 20 nations throughout Europe and the Americas.

Rosa Guzmán
        
×Rosa GuzmánRosa Guzmán is a 2020 Latin Grammy Nominee recognized by the Peruvian Ministry of Culture as a Meritorious Person of Peruvian Culture. She is one of the featured singers in the iconic Peruvian documentary, Kachkaniraqmi (Sigo Siendo in Spanish, I Am Still Here in English)—a film nominated by Los Premios Latinos as a Best Film Documentary. La Casa de la Mujer located in the district of her birth has since been renamed after her in honor of her cultural and artistic achievements. Rosa Guzmán was raised in a musical household frequented by Afro-Peruvian musical masters such as Don Ernesto “Chino” Soto, Los Hermanos Ascues, Mañuco Cobarrubias, Pablo Casas, El “Manchao” Arteaga, Valentina Barrionuevo, Wilfredo Franco, Ricardo del Valle “Mil quinientos”, and Sabina Febres “La gata”, among others. Throughout her lengthy career, Rosa Guzmán has rescued a broad repertoire of songs from the early 20th century when “criolla music” was known as “danza cancion”. Since the 90s she has toured extensively throughout Peru and abroad. For the last 17 years she had been the principle singer at Casa de la Marinera, founded by Amelia Huapaya. Rosa Guzmán also performs monthly at  Peña El Bolivariano, Casa de Pepe Villalobos, and Club Miraflores.
Cara Lawson
        
×Cara LawsonCara Lawson is a writer, film director, and artist from Chicago, Illinois. Her multi-racial background inspires her to carve out new spaces for representation in an innovative, female-centric, multi-ethnic approach to the stories of old. She weaves myths that foster compassion and empathy within this space, building vibrant worlds inspired by her passion for animation, history, politics, social justice, and folklore. After graduating summa cum laude with a B.A. in Cinema Art + Science from Columbia College, Lawson moved to Los Angeles, where she attended the prestigious American Film Institute and received a full-tuition scholarship to study Directing. Since graduating with a Master of Fine Arts degree, Cara has worked for many distinguished filmmakers including television producer Mark Gordon and award-winning director Karyn Kusama. Currently, Cara works with Ashley Lyle and Bart Nickerson, creators and showrunners of the hit cable television series Yellowjackets on Showtime. In 2022, Cara was awarded a directing fellowship by Indeed and Hillman Grad’s Rising Voices, a highly selective program. Cara was one of ten filmmakers chosen to direct her short film entitled “Crooked Trees Gon Give Me Wings” an African American magical realism story that delves into the involuntary gynecology practiced on Black women during the 19th century and the vital assistance given by Black midwives.The film was filmed on location in Savannah, Georgia, and premiered at Tribeca’s 2022 Film Festival. Cara’s currently using the resources provided by her short to fund the development of a free public education campaign for female reproductive care. Lawson devotes most of her time to extensive research for each project, believing quality comes from a thoughtful, empathetic, and anthropological approach. No matter the country, world, planet, or time period, she aims to create emotional stories rooted in character.
Adolphe Pierre-Louis
        
×Adolphe Pierre-LouisA photojournalist, actor and musician originally from Les Cayes, Haiti, Pierre-Louis has been based in Albuquerque since 1990. He began his career at the New York Daily News before relocating to Albuquerque where he has worked as a photographer for the Albuquerque Journal since 1990 and has received numerous awards and accolades for his photojournalist work, including Tops of the Rockies, Best of the West, and the New Mexico Press Association. Pierre-Louis’ works have been published globally. Founding member of Racin Kreyol, an Afro-Haitian Dance and drumming ensemble that promotes Haitian Culture throughout the Southwest. The group has performed for the last 28 years at various festivals including Albuquerque Summerfest, Globalquerque, Santa Fe Fela Fest. He is an avid cyclist and triathlete.
Chuy Martinez
        
×Chuy MartinezA singer, songwriter, folklorist, cultural worker, civil rights activist, actor and former member of La Compañía de Teatro de Albuquerque. Martinez's many awards include a 1998 Human Rights Unsung Hero Award, a 1999 Bravo Artist of the Year Award, a 2009 Si Se Puede Cesar Chavez Award, a 2011 Community Service Award, a 2014 Lifetime Achievement Award from Hilos Culturales, and a 2016 Ohtli Award, one of the highest honors given by the Mexican Government for Community and/or Cultural Services abroad, and a 2019 Corazon de Cultura Award. A nominee for New Mexico’s Governor’s Excellence in the Arts Award, he is the co-founder of numerous community organizations such as the Recuerda a Cesar Chavez Committee, now in its 27th year, the Hispanic Heritage Committee, Casa Barelas and NM Recovery Month. He is also a grassroots founding member of the National Hispanic Cultural Center. For 24 years, he worked for the City of Albuquerque as an Associate Curator of Education for the Albuquerque Museum, an Activities Coordinator for Albuquerque Public Libraries, and an Events Supervisor for Albuquerque’s Cultural Services Department. For 23 of those years he hosted and produced Lo Maduro de la Cultura television program, and he currently produces and hosts the Cultural Television Series, Caminos Culturales.

Viviam C. de J. Queirós
        
×Viviam Caroline de J. QueirósViviam Caroline de J. Queirós, percussionist, artist, and activist, was born and raised in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil. She is the founder of YaYa Muxima Women’s Band and is a featured performer/percussionist with Carlinhos Brown’s newly formed Timbaladies. In 1993, Viviam began her training as a percussionist with samba reggae creator, Neginho do Samba, then with Dida Women’s Percussion Ensemble. Viviam directed performed, taught, and fundraised for the organization for over twenty-five years.

Viviam is one of Brazil’s most sought-after authorities of Samba Reggae and the essential role the drum plays in empowering Black women. Her masterful teaching blends deep knowledge of the samba reggae drums and their rhythms, technique, movement, and spirit as powerful tools at the intersections of art and social transformation in the world.

Viviam holds an M.A. in Culture and Society from the Federal University of Bahia. Her thesis is titled Quilombo of Drums: Neguinho do Samba, the creation of Samba Reggae as a Black Bahian tradition. In 2020, Viviam ran for City Council in Salvador. Although she was not elected, Viviam remains politically and socially active in various governmental activities in Bahia. Viviam has lectured internationally at Cite de La Music, Paris; University of Texas, Austin; Tulane University, and Festival de La Juventud in El Salvador, among others. Additionally, Víviam was part of the 2011 TedTalk What is Impossible? She has performed with Angelique Kidjo, Milton Nascimento, Shakira, Carlos Santana, Caetano Veloso, Elza Soares, Gal Costa, and Carlinhos Brown.
Pedro Raposo
        
×Pedro RaposoA Dominican vocalist and songwriter, Raposo is one of the founding members of the Ballet Folklórico Nacional of the Dominican Republic, directed by the late Fradique Lizardo. In 1978 Pedro graduated from the Ministry of Fine Art as Maestro de Danzas Folklóricas. In 1994 Pedro migrated to the United States, setting residence in New York where he continued his work in folklore dance. With ensembles like AsaDifé and La 21 División, Pedro delivered important notions of the African presence in Dominican culture through lecture demonstrations and workshops in New York City public schools, community centers and art venues. In 2007 along with his life partner Maria Terrero, Pedro founded the music band Kumbacarey which explores and executes Dominican traditional rhythms like palos, Gagá, Congo, sarandunga among others. The band also has its own original compositions fusing traditional and popular music. Some of these compositions are featured in Kumbacarey’s album, Fruto de Mi Cosecha released im2017. Pedro resides now in the city of Albuquerque in New Mexico State.
Raquel Z. Rivera
        
×Raquel Z. RiveraRaquel Z. Rivera is a writer and singer-songwriter, born and raised in Puerto Rico.  Author of New York Ricans from the Hip Hop Zone (Palgrave MacMillan 2003) and co-editor of Reggaeton (Duke University Press 2009), she has published scholarly and newspaper articles, creative essays, short stories, and poetry.  As director of the band Ojos de Sofia, she co-wrote and co-produced the concept album Las 7 salves de La Magdalena (2010), an imaginative liturgy for Mary Magdalene that weaves together Caribbean roots music genres like Puerto Rican música jíbara and bomba, and Dominican salves.  A founding member of Boricua roots music group Yerbabuena, bomba music ensemble Alma Moyo, and the all-women’s percussion and vocal collective Yaya, she has also performed with Grammy nominated Los Pleneros de la 21, and internationally renowned Dominican fusion artists Luis Dias and Xiomara Fortuna.  The recipient of a 2022 City of Albuquerque Urban Enhancement Trust Fund Residency for her literary work, she is presently completing her first novel The Song Cypher.
Ilia Rodriguez
        
×Ilia RodriguezAn associate professor of journalism and media studies at The University of New Mexico where she teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in multiculturalism, gender, race, media, history of media, newswriting, and media theories and methodologies, Rodriguez has a Ph.D. in mass communication from the University of Minnesota, a Master’s degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, and a bachelor’s degree in public communication from the University of Puerto Rico. Through the lenses of critical theory, coloniality, and critical race theory, her research focuses on the analysis of news discourses on racial relations and cultural difference in U.S. mainstream, African American, Puerto Rican, and Latinx media. She has been a writer for bilingual and Spanish-language publications in San Juan, P.R., San Francisco, C.A., Providence, R.I, and New Orleans, L.A. Her academic work has been published in anthologies and journals, including Black Culture and Experience: Contemporary Issues, Howard Journal of Communications, Gazette: International Journal for Communication Studies, Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism, Bilingual Review, Revista Iberoamericana, and Razón y Palabra. Rodríguez has served as head and officer of the Minorities and Communication Division of the national Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, and member of the advisory board for Generation Justice, a multiracial youth media project in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Yvonne Miranda Singh
        
×Yvonne Miranda SinghSingh is an Atlanta-based Independent Scholar, Educator and Theater Artist working from her company, TheaterATL/International. A Bronx-born Nuyorican (of Puerto Rican, Guyanese and East Indian descent), her work as actor, director, playwright, scholar and educator focuses on cultural activism. University teaching includes courses in Dramatic Literature, History and Critical Theory. She holds diverse academic credentials which include: BA English/FineArts (Honors), Georgetown U; MFA Theater, Brooklyn College; Masters Africana Studies, Cornell; and MA/PhD Theater Studies Cornell. Honors and awards include the Mellon Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Theater Studies and African American Studies at Emory University and being named to the Fulbright Specialist Roster. Singh has a wicked sense of humor, and is both a keen observer of humanity and an insightful multicultural critic. As a tradition bearer, one of her greatest achievements has been raising and educating her two children and now her two grandchildren.
Heather Smith
		
×Heather SmithA long-time community organizer and activist, Heather is a Las Cruces, New Mexico local with a passion to help underserved communities. Heather attended New Mexico State University where she studied Sociology with an emphasis on clean drinking water systems for developing nations. Going out into the world, Heather has volunteered and organized on a grassroots level in her hometown and the surrounding areas. She is a Policy Manager at Bold Futures.
Maria Terrero
        
×Maria TerreroA songwriter and performer of Afro Caribbean music, specifically from the Dominican Republic, her country of birth, Terrero resided in New York City for most of her life, where she worked as a dancer and vocalist with ensembles like AsáDifé, Yaya and La 21 División. In 2007 María and her life partner Pedro Raposo co-founded the music band KumbaCarey which performs traditional rhythms from the Dominican Republic like sarandunga, Gagá, palos and Congo. The band also has its original compositions fusing traditional and popular music. Her songs Espíritu de Agua and Una Canción are part of Kumbacarey’a CD Fruto de Mi Cosecha released in 2017. She now resides in New Mexico.
Barbara Tran
        
×Barbara TranBarbara Tran’s poetry & fiction have appeared in Conjunctions, Minola Review, The Paris Review, and Poetry. The recipient of a MacDowell Freund Fellowship, Bread Loaf Scholarship, Lannan Foundation Writer’s Residency, and Pushcart Prize, Barbara is a contributor to collaborative works by She Who Has No Master(s), a collective of diasporic Vietnamese womxn and nonbinary writers. A video poem of Barbara’s is currently touring with Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network's traveling exhibition through 2025. Barbara is a co-writer of the short, XR film Madame Pirate: Becoming a Legend, a 2022 selection of SXSW and the Cannes Film Festival's Marché du Film. Along with Monique Truong and Khoi Luu, Barbara is co-editor of Watermark: Vietnamese American Poetry & Prose, 25th Anniversary Edition (2023). Precedented Parroting, a poetry collection, is forthcoming from Palimpsest Press in February 2024. Barbara is indebted to Hedgebrook for radical hospitality at a crucial time, and to Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council for essential support. She lives in Dish With One Spoon Territory with her partner and their two former shelter and rescue dogs, Sprocket and River.

Arnold Trujillo

Kathryn Hall-Trujillo

YOUTH COMMITTEE

Lauryn Mills-Bohannon

Anelé Coleman

SOME OF OUR FAVORITE QUOTES

Girl in Girl Power tee shirt - Photo by Kiana Bosman

I’m no longer accepting the things I cannot change.
I am changing the things I cannot accept.

It is in collectivities that we find reservoirs of hope and optimism.” Angela Davis

Good things happen when good souls meet for the good of others. Salomé Martinez Lutz

Lespwa fe viv. (Hope keeps you alive.) Haitian Proverb

A culture is a total way of life. It embraces what people ate and what they wore; the way they walked and the way they talked; the manner in which they treated death and greeted the newborn.Walter Rodney

What I do shows me what I am seeking.Sulagnés/Rosa Montero

[S]mashing things together ... culturally, that’s America at its most interesting. It’s things connected, awkwardly, that produce the brilliance. It’s not absoluteness that produces the brilliance; it’s when things that don’t belong together collide, and in that collision, something springs forth, and that becomes extraordinarily fascinating ... George C. Wolfe

Cuando la cultura y el arte se encuentran se produce una explosión de sabiduría.Chuy Martinez

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

El que no tiene de Dinga, tiene de Mandinga.Puerto Rican Proverb

Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable.Janelle Monae

We’re just babies, man!Digable Planets

Ay arriba, y arriba, arriba iré.La Bamba

If Black women were free, it would mean that everyone else would have to be free since our freedom would necessitate the destruction of all the systems of oppression.The Combahee River Collective (1977)

Caminar juntos hace más liviano el andar.

A quien madruga, Dios le ayuda.Dicho

It’s not like I suddenly became stronger, nor did anything change. My body still trembles, but I’ll keep facing my fears. What’s important is … the desire to improve.Yuki Sohma

I have standards I don't plan on lowering for anybody...including myself.Zendaya

CONTACT

Questions? Suggestions? Talk to us.

Afro.Mundo.Organization@gmail.com

OUR STORY

Guellwaar Adún

Marcus Gonçalves da Silva aka Guellwaar Adún

Mel Adún

Paula Melissa Alves aka Mel Adún

Kelli C. Bohannon

Kelli Cassaundra Bohannon

Francesca Chaney

Francesca Chaney

Benjamin “BJ” Dennis

Benjamin “BJ” Dennis

Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz

Xiomara Fortuna

Xiomara Fortuna

Charo Goyoneche

Rosario Sonia Goyoneche Narciso, aka Charo Goyoneche

Rosa Guzmán

Rosa Guzmán

Cara Lawson

Cara Lawson

Adolphe Pierre-Louis

Adolphe Pierre-Louis

Chuy Martinez

Chuy Martinez

Viviam C. de J. Queirós

Viviam Caroline de J. Queirós

Pedro Raposo

Pedro Raposo

Raquel Z. Rivera

Raquel Z. Rivera

Ilia Rodriguez

Ilia Rodriguez

Yvonne Miranda Singh

Yvonne Miranda Singh

Heather Smith

Heather Smith

Maria Terrero

Maria Terrero

Barbara Tran

Barbara Tran

Arnold Trujillo

Arnold M. Trujillo

Kathryn Hall-Trujillo

Kathryn Hall-Trujillo, DDiv, M.P.H.

Lauryn Mills-Bohannon

Lauryn Mills-Bohannon

Anelé Coleman

Anelé Coleman

CONTACT

Questions? Suggestions? Talk to us.