AFROLATINO SOCIETY - All Photos

Bolivian hip hop artist Abraham Bohorquez

Sun, 31 May 2009 21:24:20 +0000

by Martina

Adolfo Carrion, White House Director of Urban Affairs

Sun, 22 Feb 2009 22:21:49 +0000

by Martina

Panamanian journalist Gwen Ifill

Sat, 14 Feb 2009 16:01:21 +0000

by Martina

Puerto Rican author Chris Rodriguez

Mon, 02 Feb 2009 11:31:58 +0000

by Martina

Puerto Rican boxer, Jose "chegui" Torres

Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:10:41 +0000

by Martina

Julissa Ferreras = Dominican Activist

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 11:12:40 +0000

by Martina

Rafael playing horsey, DR

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:34:36 +0000

by Martina Photographer Jaime Jimenez says: "Over the past decade and a half, the lives of the people in the Dominican Republic have changed drastically. This has much to do with globalization. It has transformed and will continue to transform everyday life. I find that certain aspects of the culture are permanently lost and people’s lives are changed. Many Dominican families that have migrated to the United States bring toys to relatives and others in need on their trips back to the island. The creativity in the children has changed due to the fact that now there are more toys available. This is why I find it necessary to document the children as much as possible while making toys and during their playtime. I used to make dump trucks, matchbox cars, dollhouses, airplanes boats and toy handguns. All pieced together from the materials made for mass consumption. This is the kind of work children make who are born into poor families. Those were endless days. It is fascinating to see what goes on in a child’s head. The shape that their toys end-up taking are objects and things they wish they had as the real thing. I also find interesting the amount of commercial brand names and logos that turn up in these toys. This is evidence of an increasingly global village. Different parts of the country make different toys. It depends on the abundance of any particular material in the area. The idea is to invent anything fun. My aim is to preserve the memories of making these wonderful creations. These toys show the hopes and dreams of the children making them. And we always remember our friends. No memory is more pleasing than that of shared curiosity."

Pablo Guzman, co founder of the Young Lords

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 11:25:05 +0000

by Martina

Poet Willie Perdomo

Sat, 13 Dec 2008 01:28:52 +0000

by Martina Willie Perdomo is the author of Where a Nickel Costs a Dime (Norton, 1996) and Smoking Lovely (Rattapallax, 2003), which won the 2004 PEN American Beyond Margins Award. His work has been included in several anthologies including Poems of New York, The Harlem Reader and Metropolis Found. His work has also appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Bomb, and PEN America: A Journal for Writers and Readers. He is also the author of Visiting Langston, a Coretta Scott King Honor Book for Children, illustrated by Bryan Collier. He has been featured on several PBS documentaries including Words in Your Face and The United States of Poetry and has appeared on HBO's "Def Poetry Jam" and BET’s "Hughes’ Dream Harlem." Perdomo is the recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Fiction and Poetry Fellowships. He currently teaches at Friends Seminary and Bronx Academy of Letters. Perdomo read in Cornell's Goldwin Smith Hall on August 30, 2007. This interview took place earlier the same day. http://writersatcornell.blogspot.com/2007/08/interview-willie-perdomo.html

Garifuna Honduras

Thu, 11 Dec 2008 12:36:47 +0000

by Hadani_Niyunagu Garifuna Culture in Honduras