Friday, August 7, 2020

Mexico's Underground Railroad for African-American Runaways

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In 1829, Mexico's president, Vicente Guerrero, son of an African slave mother, inadvertently spawned a Mexican underground railroad for ...
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Wednesday, January 22, 2020

Don't Get "Played" Visiting Latin America

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It was 11:00 PM on Friday evening when my plane landed at the Jorge Chávez International Airport in Lima, Perú. I was tired and sleepy a...
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Friday, January 17, 2020

Has Your Foreign Language Skills Ever Been Tested in a Job Interview?

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If you state on your résumé that you can speak a foreign language, be prepared because you are likely to be interviewed in that language...
Friday, September 27, 2019

Hey, A Gringo is Paying!

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While on vacation in Ecuador, I made an appointment to meet with an Afro-Ecuadorian Studies Consultant at the Simón Bolívar Universi...
Wednesday, July 17, 2019

What's It Like for a Black Man in Perú?

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  Late Afro-Peruvian singer Pepe Vazquez    I received the following message in an e-mail from Sean, one of my blog readers, ...
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Monday, April 29, 2019

South America's Own Ebony Magazine

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  Revista Ébano/Ebony Magazine When I was in Cartagena, Colombia, I could not resist bringing back this souvenir I accidentally found i...
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Saturday, April 27, 2019

African American-Latino World (MY STORY!)

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  Wearing my Peruvian t-shirt at a Peruvian restaurant eating Peruvian  "soul" food with the Peruvian national drink; pisco ...
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