Academy Award-winner Ariana DeBose will portray the first Afro-Latina princess.
The trailer for Disney’s latest animation film, Wish, is here, and we’re already in love with the leading princess, voiced by West Side Story Academy Award-winning actress Ariana DeBose. Continue reading Disney Releases Trailer for ‘Wish’ and The New Princess Has Braids
By Viviana Lopez Green
Senior Director, Racial Equity Initiative
Black History Month lends the opportunity to recognize the intersection between the Black and the Latino experience. Continue reading A Mosaic Called Afro-Latinidad
By Hilary Shepherd, Refinery 29
Honoring long-held traditions while looking toward the future might be a popular practice around the holiday season, but for some, it’s a year-round business. Just ask 28-year-old digital creator Julianny Casado and 26-year-old makeup artist Sabré O’Neil. As Afro-Latinas (Casado is a first-generation American of Dominican origin; O’Neil is a second-generation American of Puerto Rican descent), the two creatives feel strongly about regularly celebrating their roots not only through their work, but through their own appearances and unique senses of style, as well. Continue reading These Afro-Latina Creatives Carved Out Their Own Career — & Found Success
By ABC News Radio
Former WNBA player Niesha Butler has opened the first Afro-Latina-owned STEM camp, S.T.E.A.M. Champs, in New York City to reduce accessibility barriers to tech educational resources for Brooklyn youth. Continue reading Former WNBA star Niesha Butler opens first Afro-Latina-owned STEM camp in New York City
By Geri Stengel, Forbes
During the early days of the pandemic, the social unrest focused attention on Afro-Latina and multicultural brands. Their communities supported them by buying their products. Corporations beefed up their diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives which included providing training to diverse women entrepreneurs and selling their products. Continue reading Makeup Brand Finds Success By Targeting Afro-Latina And Multicultural Market
By Sheyla Baez, NBC News
Ease and joy are two things that Carolina Contreras, founder and CEO of Miss Rizos, hopes to bring to people through her upcoming products designed for curly and Afro-textured hair. Continue reading An Afro Latina’s mission to embrace natural hair gets push from beauty giant
To make a difference, changemakers have to be in the rooms where decisions are made —in the places where progress can take root and bloom to affect those who need it most. Continue reading From the Editor’s Desk–In the Room Where it Happens
By Janel Martinez, POPSUGAR
When Billy Hoyle — a white basketball player with a sick jump shot in 1992’s “White Men Can’t Jump” — gets hustled by his teammate Sidney Deane, Billy’s girlfriend springs into action. Continue reading For Many Afro-Latinas, Rosie Perez Is the Hollywood Blueprint
By ASHLEY JIMENEZ, PopSugar
Afro-Latinas are very much a part of the Black diaspora, yet there’s still a major lack of representation. Continue reading These Afro-Latina Beauty Influencers Know How to Celebrate the Wonders of Black Beauty
