Aug 20, 2018 | Afro-Latinx, Black Lives Matter, Media Appearances
“Having Amara La Negra and Cardi B really has changed how a lot of younger Latino women are seeing themselves racially… But if you’re saying you’re Afro Latino and ‘I don’t like Black Lives Matter’ then you’re not dealing with Anti-Blackness. You’re just saying...
Nov 9, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Puerto Rico
Watch this video on YouTube The Borough of Manhattan Community College Social Justice Series presents: Keynote Speaker Rosa Clemente Meet Rosa Clemente–organizer, hip hop scholar, journalist, and 2008 Vice-Presidential Candidate (Green Party) for an evening of...
Aug 17, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Black Lives Matter, Journalism, Puerto Rico
UPDATE 8/18/2017: I have confirmed that is was not Alex Ramos who was in the Vice News video climbing into a van with David Duke, but it was a man with a Puerto Rican flag. Additionally, it was Alex Ramos who assaulted teacher and artist DeAndre Harris. I am a Black...
May 15, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Hip Hop, Women Of Color
Watch this video on YouTube Rosa Clemente speaks at Rock the School Bells at Skyline College about the essence of hip hop, the legacy of speaking truth to power, and the dire context of an administration lead by an overt White...
Feb 26, 2017 | Afro-Latinx, Journalism, Women Of Color
In 1993, I was a student at the State University of New York-Albany when Dr. Marta Moreno Vega came to speak on our campus. Until that evening, I had never heard the term Afro-Latina. In fact, I had just learned what it meant when someone said “African descendant.”...
Aug 17, 2016 | Afro-Latinx, Electoral Politics, Women Of Color, Writing
Article written by Rosa Clemente First published by PBS NewsHour When the United States Constitution was fully ratified on June 21, 1788, neither white women, black women nor black men were considered full citizens of this nation. In fact black people, free or...
