Tag: Latinos
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Latinos are questioning family racial narratives as they uncover their ancestry
Through SlaveSocieties.org, this reporter confronted his own family’s slave-owning past: Notary records from Cartagena, Colombia — once the largest slave port in South America — revealed an 1831 will of a previously unknown fourth-great-grandmother who left her daughter three enslaved youths as well as 100 pesos to purchase yet another slave. This reporter never thought…
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The Untold Story of Latinos’
For John Leguizamo, his 2017 one-man Broadway play “Latin History for Morons” was his introduction into addressing and tackling the “erasure of our Latin history.” Now in “American Historia: The Untold Story of Latinos,” Leguizamo sets the record straight as he delves into the sweep of U.S. Latino and Latin American history from the powerful…