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Through radio broadcasts and digital archives, Moskitian activists are reclaiming their history, resisting settler colonial ...
A civil rights advocate for Afro-Caribbean women, Julia de Burgos was a Puerto Rican ... He died that year at 38 when his plane crashed while on a humanitarian mission to Nicaragua. Rosa Clemente was ...
Mining, ranching and logging by squatters — who are acting in collusion with the Ortega government in Managua — are expanding ...
Descended from an Afro-Caribbean father, Jasmine Chavez Helm recently became ... own blackness prompted Chavez Helm to devote three years of her life to researching Nicaragua's black history and the ...
Afro-Latino athletes have long been integral ... Tragically, he died in 1972 while delivering supplies to earthquake victims in Nicaragua. Today, MLB honors his spirit through the Roberto Clemente ...
End so-called “parole programs” (often referred to as “family reunification”) that allow family members of certain citizens and permanent-resident immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua ...
A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, ...
A modern-day gold rush is poisoning ecosystems and terrorizing Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities in Nicaragua, as corporations and settlers invade autonomous territories and nature reserves, ...
A similarly disproportionate ratio was found in urban areas of Nicaragua, where 81% of the Afro-descendant population had limited access to water versus 35% of non-Afro descendants. Harris Machado ...
A project in Nicaragua's rural areas from 2015 to 2019 helped over 14,000 people, mostly women, youth, and Afro-descendants, improve their access to nutritious food. The project used innovative ...
Historic Protestant denominations such as the Episcopal Church of Nicaragua and the Moravian Church of Nicaragua ... services in areas predominantly populated by indigenous and Afro-descendent people, ...
“The financing of these projects has affected and devastated our forests as a result of deforestation,” the Alliance of Indigenous and Afro-descendant Peoples of Nicaragua said in a 2020 ...