A.C.T.O.R (A Continuing Talk on Race)
Date and Time
Jan 3, 2016 4:00 pm
Location
14th & V
2021 14th St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20009
Jan 3, 2016 4:00 pm
14th & V
The A.C.T.O.R. (A Continuing Talk on Race) open discussion series is hosted by Busboys and Poets as a community service. It provides the opportunity for people to come together and speak openly and honestly about issues of race. The intent is that each person walks away from the discussion feeling something: challenged, educated, uncomfortable, enlightened, refreshed, reassured and hopefully inspired and moved to action! Each month there is a new topic for discussion.
This Month's Topic: Afro-Latino: The Invisible Black CommunityÂ
There were 11.2 million Africans that we can count who survived the Middle Passage and landed in the New World, and of that 11.2 million, only 450,000 came to the United States. That’s amazing. All the rest went south of Miami as it were.  --Henry Louis Gates Jr.
There's no doubt that the intersection between Black and Latino identity runs deep, and yet the Afro-Latino experience remains largely invisible in mainstream media.  Join Mimi Machado-Luces of TVA Productions in a discussion on Race in relation to the Latin Diaspora.  Moderated by Professor Fahima Seck.   Â
