A conversation with Manuel Mendez on immigration, Afro Latinidad and colorism
Manuel Mendez is the president and chair of the D.C. Afro Latino Caucus, a local organization that focuses on Afro...
Category: Afro-LatinX Experience Team
“In the Heights” low on Afro-latinx representation
The new movie, In the Heights, takes place in New York City’s Washington Heights, where nearly seven in every ten...
How a local author embraced her Afro-Latina Identity and thrived
“I’m just like Cardi B, I fall down eight times; I get up nine,” says Rosalyn Lake Montero, a local...
Manuel Mendez on documenting D.C.’s Afro-Latino story
When Manuel Mendez was a teenager growing up in the 1990s in the District’s Columbia Heights neighborhood, he was a...