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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Marino Cordoba of AfroDes speaks at NYU
By Karen Juanita CarrilloWith President George W. Bush pushing Congress to consider
passage of the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement (FTA), activists want to make certain more people are aware of how this
agreement would affect Colombia's Black population. 
Afro Colombian activist Marino
Cordoba, leader of the organization AFRODES (Asociación de Afrocolombianos Desplazados/Association of Internally Displaced Afro-Colombians; www.afrodes.org), spoke on Friday, March 28 at New York University about this issue. Marino Cordoba takes a question from a student at NYU (Karen Juanita Carrillo photo) read more
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Sunday, April 13, 2008
Bob Marley's mother dies in Miami at 81"Cedella Booker, the mother of Jamaican music legend Bob Marley, has died, a family spokesman
said Wednesday. She was 81. Booker died in her sleep Tuesday night at her home in Miami, apparently from natural causes, spokesman
Jerome Hamilton said," writes Howard Campbell of the Associated Press. "Booker, a Jamaica native, was 18 when she married Norval Marley, a British man 32 years her
senior. Their son brought Jamaican reggae music to international prominence, becoming its international image. Bob Marley
died in Miami of a brain tumor in 1981 at age 36. "Mrs. Booker was the matriarch of a movement
so powerful that the mystical qualities of the Marley musical legacy remain strong and potent," Jamaica Information Minister
Olivia Grange said. "After Norval Marley died in 1955, Booker married an American man and
settled in Delaware. She wrote two biographies of her famous son and recorded two albums, Awake Zion! and Smilin'
Island of Song. "She was a star in her own right," Jamaica Prime Minister Bruce
Golding said in a statement. "Her life was one of hardship, struggle and eventual fulfillment, and through it all, she
exuded hope, strength and confidence."
10:19 pm edt
Is starvation contagious?
"Few people, much less their governments, appear to be concerned about what is happening in
Haiti, next to Cuba our nearest neighbour and, in historical terms, the people who paved the way for our freedom from slavery
and implemented for the first time anywhere in the world, the idea of universal human rights," John Maxwell writes in an OpEd in the Jamaican Observer.... "Today, and especially for the last few weeks, the starving people in
Haiti have been trying to get the world to listen to their anguish and misery. Along with some other poor people in other
countries, the Haitians have been driven to desperation and the edge of starvation by the rapidly increasing price of food.
Unlike all the others, the Haitians are over the edge, they are starving, refugees in their own proud country, where many
are forced to eat dirt to survive, however tenuously. "Only the Cubans, the
Venezuelans and the Vietnamese appear to care about what is happening in Haiti. The rest of us are too concerned with 'wealth
management' and the prospects of foreign investors with bursting wallets floating down from the sky to make us all rich."
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The Sound of My Footsteps: Narratives of Migratory Jamaican immigrants
Interviews with over 30 Jamaican immigrants on their
pre-migratory perceptions of New York and England Click
here to view and purchase the book.
The Afro-Latin@ Reader:
History and Culture in the United States
 The Afro-Latin@ Reader focuses attention on a large, vibrant, yet oddly invisible community
in the United States: people of African descent from Latin America and the Caribbean. The presence of Afro-Latin@s
in the United States (and throughout the Americas) belies the notion that Blacks and Latin@s are two distinct categories
or cultures. Afro-Latin@s are uniquely situated to bridge the widening social divide between Latin@s and African
Americans. At the same time, their experiences reveal pervasive racism among Latin@s and ethnocentrism among African
Americans. Offering insight into Afro-Latin@ life and new ways to understand culture, ethnicity, nation, identity,
and antiracist politics, The Afro-Latin@ Reader presents a kaleidoscopic view of Black Latin@s in the United
States. It addresses history, music, gender, class, and media representations in more than sixty selections, including
scholarly essays, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, poetry, short stories, and interviews. Click here to view and purchase the book.
African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events by Karen Juanita Carrillo The proof
of any group's importance to history is in the detail, a fact made plain by this informative book's day-by-day documentation
of the impact of African Americans on life in the United States. One of the easiest ways to grasp any aspect of history
is to look at it as a continuum. African American History Day by Day: A Reference Guide to Events provides just
such an opportunity. Click here to view and purchase the book.
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. Click here to view and purchase the book.
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. Click
the logo above to view and purchase the book.
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