Radio Caña Negra

17/01/2023

Gabriela M. Vázquez, Casa Silvana, Serie Jóvenes Afro, arte Puerto Rico,

13/10/2022

“Batista originally hails from Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, and has performed with companies from all over the world. Often, he is the only Black member of the company. The Pacific Northwest Ballet, which is based in Seattle, has a total of 46 dancers—only nine of them (including Batista) identify as Black.”

This marks the first time a Black person has held the title in the organization's 50 year history.

10/10/2022

Some of you all keep on upholding the belief of there are no white Latines and keep on using white passing and other identifiers.... I hope you listen to the full audio clip.... Some of you all are DANGEROUS AS F**K! The issue is you make policies and make like unlivable for soo many of us, literally unlivable.
"Behind closed doors, Los Angeles City Council President Nury Martinez made openly racist remarks, derided some of her council colleagues and spoke in unusually crass terms about how the city should be carved up politically."

A leaked recording of L.A. City Council members and a labor official includes racist remarks. Council President Nury Martinez apologizes; Councilmember Kevin de León expresses regret.

05/10/2022

We have been reading ‘s book “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino AntiBlackness and the Struggle for Equality” and our WhatsApp chat is lit with our thoughts. We all echo the sentiment of this experience: “Afro-Latines said that on-campus Latine spaces are among the most violent, with many adding that their ethnic identity was questioned because of their Blackness. One participant noted: “My entire life, Latino spaces have always been the most violent for me. To this day, I can’t enter a space where there are only Latinos.”
Read the slides, curated by on and we want to hear some of your experiences. Tag a friend and share!

22/09/2022

We have been hearing a lot lately that race in Latin America, and that Latinidad is 'complicated'. What exactly is complicated about being from a whole region? WHAT? And who determines this 'complication'? Level of complexity? As undeniable Black Women from Latin America, we do not find it complicated at all. We are Black. Period. We find it convenient that the White folks and the those that are adjacent to them continue to misinform others under the guise of 'complicated' when it is not. Racism exists. Indigenous people are Indigenous, Black people are Black, Asians are Asians, Mixed race are Mixed Raced, White are White. And racial hierarchies exist and are alive. Class systems exist, and racism is alive and well. What is complicated? Just be honest. It is just one more excuse to not have to do your work.

21/09/2022

Latinx Heritage Month has started for some.... for us, there is not much to celebrate. What we will do is center some of the realities that Black people face at the hands of non Black Latines.

Example Numero 1: Raimundo Atesiano, Ex-Florida Police Chief. Spent years framing innocent Black people for crimes they did not commit.

Were arrested for burglaries and vehicle break-ins they didn’t commit.

25/08/2022

SPANISH

Anti-Negritud en Familias Latinas aparece en Comentarios/insultos no deseados dirigidos a bebés, niñez, jovenes, adultes y/o adultez mayores de raza Negra en la familia sobre el estado indeseable de su cabello, vestimenta, peso, olor, alimentación, etc.

Comentarios como:
Ella/El siempre anda brava/o.
No se le puede decir nada sin que se moleste.
Yo solo estoy dandole consejos y mira como se pone
El/ella siempre ha sido una/un grosero
Mira como falta el respeto
Mira como grita, etc.

Estas actitudes ‘percibidas’ por lo general, son el resultado de toda una vida de abuso contra los negros experimentado por miembros de la familia negros que, fuera de ese entorno familiar específico, son personas agradables.

Incluso si usted no es el o la que está insultando, si no está interrumpiendo, también está participando ACTIVAMENTE Anti-Negritud y también es Anti-Negre.

Dejar ‘pasar’ comentarios racistas para no ofender miembros de la 'familia' a expensas de la persona insultada, perjudicada, violada. Esto es antinegritud.

Hacer que la persona que fue lastimada que se equivoca sobre sus sentimientos (diciéndole que no se enoje por ejemplo). Esto es ANTI-NEGRITUD
Comentarios en defensa de comportamientos/comentarios antinegros como
No te pongas bravo/a
Tu sabes que el/ella te quiere
Tu tambien estas siendo grosera, mira como estas hablando
Que te dijo que fue tan malo? INSERTAR COMENTARIO, no crees que hay algo de verdad en eso?
Yo conozco una persona……..
Etc.
SON TODOS ANTINEGROS
Esperar que las cosas estén bien después de la misma mi**da es anti-negro.

Estos son todos ejemplos de comportamientos Anti-Negres y te hacen a ti anti-negre tambien si no interrumpes estos comportamientos dentro de tu propia famila.

29/12/2021

The latest from our collective member Dash Harris.

"Reggaeton’s roots are Afro-Caribbean and Afro-Panamanian, but many of its biggest current stars have built careers cosplaying Blackness. White performers don Black Cool to cut out actual Black people. This isn’t new. From the days of “blue-eyed soul” performers such as Elvis Presley copying Black music, this practice was and is also common in Latin America. The fraudulent “Conga King” Desi Arnaz became a star performing Black music outlawed by his own father in his native Cuba. Carmen Miranda, the daughter of Portuguese immigrants who settled in Brazil thanks to the government’s “whitening campaigns,” appropriated the dress, headwraps jewelry and musical style of Black women from Salvador da Bahia to become one of the most famous and highest-paid performers of the 1940s. The economic factor in Black erasure is important as we call in the material realities. It robs those who create the art from harvesting its fruits."

For years now, Afro-Colombians have been calling out Balvin for his flagrant appropriation and constant dodging of meaningful accountability.

10/12/2021

Simply a stellar line up! Please make sure your register for AfroResistance Human rights day event happening tomorrow! Register now: https://bit.ly/humanrightsdayafroresistance

01/08/2021

25/07/2021

29 years since the Network of AfroLatin American, AfroCaribbean and African Diasporic women was founded. Red de Mujeres Afrolatinoamericanas, Afrocaribeñas y de la Diáspora
FELICIDADES MACHETERXS! Check out www.mujeresafro.org

05/06/2021

We speak from ancestral and lived knowledge. Address exactly why when Black folks, particularly Black women, speak you ride on “skeptical,” “not sure,” “are there other sources to back this up?””Well, let’s wait and see” vibes. That is antiblackness, specifically misogynoir. We are not begging, nor asking. We are standing in truth. We invite you to do the same. The great part is you can start right now!

04/06/2021

02/06/2021

Radio Caña Negra

25/05/2021

Virtual gathering launching ‘s historical media campaign focusing on Black Latin American women and femmes.
A virtual gathering of Black Latin Americans to kick off our social media campaign where we invite folks to create videos, vlogs, reels, pictures, sound and audio focusing on historical and present-day Black Latin American women and femmes with the hashtag . The name of the event comes from Angeley Crawford's initiative (The Black woman speaks).
We will share stories & short vignettes of Black Latin American & Caribbean women and femmes and as Angeley invites us to do, name ourselves in love & liberation.
In March 2021, Gloria Malone created a month-long series of TikTok videos sharing the stories of AfroLatinas and we want to continue highlighting, centering, honoring and naming the Black women and femmes who continue to carve the way.
Check out Gloria's series on TikTok.
This is a free event on zoom and YouTube. Please be sure to register via the zoom link which will be sent 24 hours before the event after signing up through eventbrite.
www.lasnegrasspeak.eventbrite.com