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Roots Of Change: Puerto Rican Mothers Embrace Natural Hair To Combat

Roots Of Change: Puerto Rican Mothers Embrace Natural Hair To Combat
Flor-Angel Guilbe Stevens sings bomba alongside the group Aché de Bomba y Plena at El Imán Bar & Restaurant in Loíza, Puerto Rico. Bomba cultural traditions help create an Afro-Puerto Rican community and affirm Guilbe’s identity. Gabriela Meléndez Rivera/GPJ

In some school and work environments, hairstyles associated with blackness, such as dreadlocks, are still prohibited. One family is embracing a radical change in attitude.

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Transparent, Colombia: First Black Trans Parents Shake Latin American Traditions

Transparent, Colombia: First Black Trans Parents Shake Latin American Traditions
Valerie and Theo are the first trans couple of Afro-Caribbean origins in Colombia to have a biological daughter. El Espectador

Valerie and Theo, both students at Cali’s del Valle university, are the country’s first Afro-Caribbean trans couple to have a baby, with husband Theo giving birth through C-section.

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Impact: Organic Revolution Society

Colombia Postcard: Native Plants And Caribbean Values

Fruit sellers in Cartegna
Fruit sellers in Cartegna Luz A. Villa

Older people in San Basilio de Palenque know 64 edible plants native to the region. Their grandchildren, about half. How can the agriculture past of this region not become history?

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