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Wednesday, February 27, 2008

Dominican-Haitians form political movement
By Karen Juanita Carrillo

This past December 2007, members of the Movimiento Politico Comunitario Dominico-Haitiano (MPCDH /Dominican-Haitian Community Political Movement) announced that they would begin pushing to have their members run for governmental positions in the Dominican Republic.

The MPCDH has announced that if its members are elected to government, they will make certain to represent Haitian-Dominican interests.

Haitian-Dominican attorney Rubén Jean-Baptiste Latorti told the DR newspaper Diario Libre that the MPCDH wants to be known as the voice of Dominican-born Haitians. The MPCDH will “fight for a political-communitarian space with the aim of ensurin

g representation in the government across the national arena,” Latorti said.

Rubén Jean-Baptiste Latorti
movimientodominicohaitiano.com

With a notorious past of neglect and abuse in the Dominican Republic, Dominicans of Haitian origin had long looked to have their lives and property protected by representatives of the DR government, by the neighboring government in Haiti, and even by non-governmental organizations working within the DR.

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Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Uruguay: Spirit of Afro Resistance Alive in Candombe

"In the streets of Montevideo, Uruguay, Afro-Uruguayans celebrate an often-ignored part of their history - Candombe and resistance. For more than 200 years Afro descendants have maintained the tradition of Candombe, a rhythm that traveled from Africa to Uruguay with African slaves. The music carries centuries of resistance and liberation," notes Marie Trigona in the article "Uruguay: Spirit of Afro Resistance Alive in Candombe."

Photo of the Isla de Flores Comparsa in Barrio Sur

by Marie Trigona

"The word Candombe literally means place and dance of Africans. The musical tradition evolved during the colonial area. Africans brought to Uruguay for slave labor used the rhythm of the tambores, or drums, to communicate with each other and defy colonialists."

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The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future

by Karen Juanita Carrillo

The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future is an introduction to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia. They only recently won recognition as one of that nation's distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has led many Afro-Colombians to reach even farther than their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the United States as refugees and as political activists working for peace in their homeland. The View from Chocó introduces the lives and struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian Blacks.

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Raise Your Brown Black Fist is a collection of essays written by Kevin Alberto Sabio during his time as a Contributing Writer

for an online magazine.

The book combines his two article series, "Black vs Brown" and "Black Thoughts: A Political Ideological Perspective for Afrolatinos" into one volume, plus three other miscellaneous entries. The book is currently available through his publisher, AuthorHouse.

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