MiamiHerald.com | Afro-Latin Americans
In this series, the black experience is unveiled through a journey to Nicaragua, where a quiet but powerful civil and cultural rights movement flickers while in neighboring Honduras, the black Garifuna community fights for cultural survival, to the Dominican Republic where African lineage is not always embraced; to Brazil, home to the world’s second largest population of African descent, to Cuba, where a revolution that promised equality has failed on its commitment to erase racism, and to Colombia, where the first black general serves as an example of Afro-Latin American achievements.
