In the U.S., Dominicans are the Hispanic group with the largest Black population. Many are pressured to identify as either Black or Latino, not both. As the United States marked the end of Hispanic ...
A new exhibition in West Palm Beach invites viewers to look beyond surface-level interactions with people from marginalized communities amid aggressive immigration crackdowns and ongoing questions ...
Early on in writer-director Ivan Herrera’s inconspicuously layered “Bantú Mama,” the Dominican Republic’s current Oscar entry for Best International Feature Film, a brief display of joyful magical ...
The actress took to her Instagram stories to speak out against an educational Refinery29 post Zoe Saldana is being called out for her reported comments surrounding an educational Instagram post on ...
Growing up as a first-gen teen in Queens during the '90s, my Black Dominican immigrant mother would routinely say things to me like, "Tu saliste perfecta, saliste mas clara que yo, pero arreglate esa ...
Brooklyn-based Dominican composer and guitarist Yasser Tejeda has explored myriad ways to mesh Afro-Dominican roots music with sophisticated modern arrangements while maintaining its cultural ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Arizona Luminaria on palabra, the digital news site by the National Association of Hispanic Journalists. By Beatriz Limón with photo and video by ...