Afro-Latino identity: a group of women help explain what it means to be Afro-Latina

Growing up as a Black Latina 🌍✨ can be an intricate journey, especially when the world tries to separate the two identities. Angeley’s @lanegraspeaks story highlights this complexity. Her mother, who immigrated from Costa Rica 🇨🇷, always instilled pride in her Afro-Caribbean heritage 🌿🎶. In Limon, the food 🍛, music 🎶, and culture were vibrant expressions of their Blackness, something beautiful and full of sabor 🌞. But when her family moved from Flatbush to Bushwick, Brooklyn 🗽 in the la

Dropping Knowledge with Black Latinas Know Collective

Being Afro-Latina is an identity I had to embrace over time… STORY TIME! 🫣 Growing up, my siblings and I didn’t speak Spanish, and my family was split between my dad’s Puerto Rican side and my mom’s Dominican side. From a young age, my mom relaxed my hair because my thick coils were “too hard to manage” and painful at that. When I saw my straight hair, I felt beautiful — because that’s all I knew. By middle school, I discovered the natural hair community and said “Mami, I want to start doing my

Amara La Negra Honors Being Afro-Latina: Ones to Watch