#blackdominican

[girlwiththeladybugtattoo]

I wrote a piece on 27 things I’ve Learned as a Writer for on my blog ‘Mad Seasoned’. Give it a read 💖 • Film shot by IG: getchamans 💫💫

[univsolmc]

So I’m trying to work my way up to sing one of my favorite salsa songs. I’m a keep it a secret tho, ‘cause I don’t want people bite my sh*t. I felt like i needed to start with something simple since my Spanish is horrible and my singing is well…I’m working on it. This song “Bésame Mucho” is a classic written by Consuelo Valazquez and covered by many. Here’s my spin on it 👍🏽 You can give it a listen on the streaming platform of your choice, but right now I’m a put major focus on @spotify - Let me know what you think 💭 Don’t worry, I’m a big boy and can accept criticism 😅 Photo courtesy @digidg . . . #newmusic #newmusicalert #newmusicfriday #newmusicfridays #newmusicrelease #newmusicalert🚨 #electronichiphop #alternativernb . . . #latinoartist #dominican #dominicanartist #dominicanasgottalent #afrolatino #afrolatinos #dominicano #blackdominican . . . #spanishsongs #spanishsong #besamemucho #latinodance (at Radiowreck, LLC) https://www.instagram.com/p/CYuSZ8NuTmC/?utm_medium=tumblr

[bravatravels]

Que pena que muchos Dominicanos incluyendo a Sammy Sosa se sientan avergonzados de su herencia Africana A pesar de que nuestra historia claramente nos enseña que somos decendientes de la Hermosa Raza Taina, la Africana, e Hispanica. Una mezcla de differentes culturas que nos hacen unicos👁👁🇩🇴💖 Debemos Amarnos a nosotros mismos y a la vez educarnos sobre nuestros origenes para entender la belleza pura de nuestra Raza😱😘 Yo me siento orgullosa de ser una negra Dominicana🙌💪😎💖 Proud to be a black Dominican💪🎶 #mujerbrava💪 #blackdominican #sammysosa #sadnews #pobrecito #orgullosa #mipais #migente #somoshumanos #yporquee😂 #educationistheworldsalvation👊🤓 #soydominicana🇩🇴 #despierta #regrann @blackafrican7000bc - @Bravatravels

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Highlighting our Black Dominicans to disrupt the whitening of the Dominican Republic! Highlighting our ancestors who continue to work for our liberation! Petronila Angélica Gómez, school teacher and director of Fémina, the first feminist magazine in the Dominican Republic, can be considered one the pioneers in the development of feminism in her country. Through this magazine, she showcased her ideas about the role of women within Dominican society, promoted the creation of the first feminist organization in the country (the Dominican Feminist Central Committee in 1926), and debated the need to act against the invasion of the Dominican Republic by US Marines. Being part of an international network, Fémina represents one of the earliest examples of the participation of women in the intellectual fields in Latin America and the Caribbean, highlighting the importance of international associations and transnational consciousness that characterized many Latin American women of the time. #365black #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #liftingafrocaribculture #blackrevolution #blackconsciousness #blackleaders #blackthought #decolonizeyourmind #blackdominicans #ancestorworship https://www.instagram.com/p/B9UfHeuJCb2/?igshid=qldkwxd4mc5

[havekiddoswilltravel]

I can’t believe that is 2020 and we’re still having this conversation. I’m black. That’s my race. I’m also Dominican and that’s an ethnicity. I have never doubted that I’m black because I know the history of colonization that plagued the island. It’s so embarrassing to read comments from fellow Dominicans in denial. The education system has clearly failed them. They need Beverly Tatum and a better understanding of racial identity. #racism #blackdominican #stopthecycle #internalizedracism #colorism #enough https://www.instagram.com/p/CBHYfApAJSm/?igshid=psh8ooukayuo

[dominicanslovehaitians]

November 1, 1974, Mama Tingó, an activist and defender of the rights of the peasant in the Dominican Republic was murdered. Her real name was Florinda Soriano Muñoz. Mama Tingó was killed fighting the unjustified dispossession of land to the peasant residents of Hato Viejo in Yamasá during the second government of Joaquín Balaguer. She was born on November 8, 1921 to Eusebia Soriano and was baptized in the Holy Spirit parish in the community of Villa Mella. On December 6, 1922, she married a farmer named Felipe and had many children. She was a peasant leader who stood out for defending the rights of people to work the land, this fight was for the recovery of lands that were in the hands of landowners, politicians and military who had acquired them fraudulently, taking possession of meadows and herds that had been the cradle and means of work and subsistence for some 350 families gathered in the Christian Agrarian League. She was murdered during the presidency of Joaquín Balaguer 1974 in Gualey, Hato Viejo, of Yamasá, at the hands of Ernesto Díaz, who killed her for filing a complaint against the landowner Pablo Díaz. On the first of November of each year the anniversary of her death is commemorated. Mama Tingó is a symbol of the struggle for land and an example of rural women in the defense of the rights of the peasantry in the Dominican Republic and throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. (el nacional) #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #mamatingó #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blackstudies #blackeducators #blackdominicans #dominicanslovehaitians #dismantlingantiblackness #ecologicalwarrior #campesinos #blackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/B8WijFKJUq0/?igshid=3zw9we9kr4q5

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Dismantling Antiblackness!! ELIZABETH ACEVEDO is a New York Times bestselling author of The Poet X and With the Fire on High. Her critically-acclaimed debut novel, The Poet X, won the 2018 National Book Award for Young People’s Literature. She is also the recipient of the Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Fiction, the CILIP Carnegie Medal, and the Boston Globe-Hornbook Award. Additionally, she was honored with the 2019 Pure Belpré Author Award for celebrating, affirming, and portraying Latinx culture and experience. Her books include, Beastgirl & Other Origin Myths (YesYes 2016), The Poet X (HarperCollins, 2018), & With The Fire On High (HarperCollins, 2019). She holds a BA in Performing Arts from The George Washington University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Maryland. Acevedo has been a fellow of Cave Canem, Cantomundo, and a participant in the Callaloo Writer’s Workshops. She is a National Poetry Slam Champion, and resides in Washington, DC with her love. @acevedowrites #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #elizabethacevedo #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blackstudies #blackeducators #blackdominicans #dominicanslovehaitians #dismantlingantiblackness https://www.instagram.com/p/B8S285PJIUx/?igshid=1x8fdqo9hl1f4

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Uplifting our Black voices. Breaking antiblackness in DR!!!! Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. After Espaillat’s great-uncle opposed the regime, her family was exiled to the United States and settled in New York City. She began writing poetry as a young girl—in Spanish and then English—and has published in both languages. Espaillat has published 11 poetry collections, including Lapsing to Grace (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence (2001), recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award; Playing at Stillness (2005); and a bilingual chapbook titled Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word (2001). On Rehearsing Absence, Robert Shaw wrote in Poetry,“To Rhina Espaillat the quotidian is no malady . . . it is the source of inspiration. Hers is a voice of experience, but it is neither jaded nor pedantic. She speaks not from some cramped corner but from somewhere close to the center of life.” Awarding Espaillat the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize for Where Horizons Go, X.J. Kennedy noted that “such developed skill and such mastery of rhyme and meter are certainly rare anymore; so is plainspeaking.” Espaillat’s work has garnered many awards, including the Sparrow Sonnet Prize, three Poetry Society of America prizes, the Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, and—for her Spanish translations of Robert Frost—the Robert Frost Foundation’s Tree at My Window Award. She is a two-time winner of The Formalist’s Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and the recipient of a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College. She is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets and a founding member and former director of the Powow River Poets. For over a decade, she coordinated the Newburyport Art Association’s Annual Poetry Contest. (www.poetryfoundation.org ) #Black365days #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #rhinapespaillat #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blackstudies #blackeducators #blackdominicans #dominicanslovehaitians #dismantlingantiblackness https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Rb_agJIRN/?igshid=sz3ggm6odxih

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Rhina P. Espaillat was born in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. After Espaillat’s great-uncle opposed the regime, her family was exiled to the United States and settled in New York City. She began writing poetry as a young girl—in Spanish and then English—and has published in both languages. Espaillat has published 11 poetry collections, including Lapsing to Grace (1992); Where Horizons Go (1998), winner of the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize; Rehearsing Absence (2001), recipient of the 2001 Richard Wilbur Award; Playing at Stillness (2005); and a bilingual chapbook titled Mundo y Palabra/The World and the Word (2001). On Rehearsing Absence, Robert Shaw wrote in Poetry,“To Rhina Espaillat the quotidian is no malady . . . it is the source of inspiration. Hers is a voice of experience, but it is neither jaded nor pedantic. She speaks not from some cramped corner but from somewhere close to the center of life.” Awarding Espaillat the 1998 T.S. Eliot Prize for Where Horizons Go, X.J. Kennedy noted that “such developed skill and such mastery of rhyme and meter are certainly rare anymore; so is plainspeaking.” Espaillat’s work has garnered many awards, including the Sparrow Sonnet Prize, three Poetry Society of America prizes, the Der-Hovanessian Translation Prize, and—for her Spanish translations of Robert Frost—the Robert Frost Foundation’s Tree at My Window Award. She is a two-time winner of The Formalist’s Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award and the recipient of a 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award from Salem State College. She is a founding member of the Fresh Meadows Poets and a founding member and former director of the Powow River Poets. For over a decade, she coordinated the Newburyport Art Association’s Annual Poetry Contest. (www.poetryfoundation.org ) #Black365days #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #rhinapespaillat #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blackstudies #blackeducators #blackdominicans #dominicanslovehaitians https://www.instagram.com/p/B8RJ3oxpRQw/?igshid=1kmhn7cgfpc0k

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Smashing the patriarchy. Dominicans are Black. Silvio Torres-Saillant, Professor in the English Department, is Dean’s Professor of the Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he formerly headed the Latino-Latin American Studies Program, served as Director of the Humanities Council, and held the post of William P. Tolley Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Humanities. His books include The Once and Future Muse: The Poetry and Poetics of Rhina P. Espaillat [with Nancy Kang] (University of Pittsburgh P. 2018), Caribbean Poetics (2nd ed. Peepal Tree Press 2013; 1st. ed. Cambridge University P. 1997), An Intellectual History of the Caribbean (Palgrave 2006), El tigueraje intelectual (2nd ed. Mediabyte 2011; 1st ed. CIAM/Manati 2002), El retorno de las yolas (2nd ed. Editora Universitaria Bonó 2019; 1st ed. LaTrinitaria/Manatí 1999), and The Dominican Americans [with Ramona Hernández] (Greenwood 1998). He co-founded La Casita Cultural Center, an off-campus unit of the College of Arts and Sciences conceived as a bridge of communication, collaboration, and exchange between the school and the Latino population of the city while promoting the Hispanic heritages of Central New York. Before coming to SU, he founded the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, an interdisciplinary research at the City College of New York, and taught in the English Department of Hostos Community College, CUNY. As a visitor, he has taught at Amherst College, Harvard University, the Universidad de Cartagena, and Colombia’s Universidad Nacional. He lectures widely in Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and the United States. A member of the Editorial Board of the University of Houston’s Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Project, he is Associate Editor of Latino Studies (Palgrave) and has edited the New World Studies Series for the University of Virginia Press. #Black365days #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #silviotorressaillant #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #whitesupremacyisterrorism #blackstudies #blackeducators #blackdominicans #dominicanslovehaitians https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Oi4ZZF6yx/?igshid=2hq7q5xoylcv

[dominicanslovehaitians]

Disrupting the narrative. Dominicans are Black. Josefina Báez @ayombetheatre (La Romana, Dominican Republic ), actress , writer , director and educator , is the current founder and director of the Ay Ombe Theater Company (estd. 1986). Baez is known for his interpretation of the Dominicanish and comrade texts, Bliss is not playing. Baez describes herself as "an artist, writer, educator and director whose work explores the present and her encounters with the past and the future." Báez has participated in several theater and travel festivals worldwide and the realization of workshops and retreats Ay Ombe theater. Josefina Baez has also created an art system, based on her own learning, called “Performance Autology ©” has been described as: “The creative process of the author's autobiography is approaching . Technically kept to the core, this path develops in sobriety. The physical and mental and spiritual realms are investigated and have been nourished. Sources for this study include theater biomechanics, yoga , meditations, calligraphy, world dance, music , literature , theater , popular culture , tea culture, video art, social, science of Health and healing among others. Baez's works have been published in Forward Motion (NYC), Compass / Compass (Latin American Writers Institute (New York), Ventana Abierta ( University of California ), Tertuliano / Hanging Out (Dominican Republic Women Writers) New York), Vetas (Dominican Republic), the connections of the Caribbean: Moving north (NECA / Washington, Dominicanish (NYC) and the Beacon Press, 2011, Anthology. Dominicanish has been carried out several times internationally in the last ten years. The text has been translated into Bengali. Baez works hard with issues such as racial and ethnic identities, global concerns, spirituality and psychology. (Wiki) #Black365days #blacklikeme #afrodominican #panafrican #josefinabaez #veryblack #upliftingblackvoices #blackcaribbeanvoices #blackwriters #culturalworker #artactivists #blackdominicans #whitesupremacyisterrorism #dominicanslovehaitians https://www.instagram.com/p/B8K9b2mlYeo/?igshid=7pwiadzocbpq